[6950] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.2P: olcr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 24 19:09:12 1991
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 91 19:08:31 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: pit-manager
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.2P
Display type: apa16
megapel
What were you trying to do?
(1) Send mail in the text olcr client (since mail in the eolcr
client is broken; (2) forward the question on that instance in
the eolcr client; (3) do something else in the text olcr client.
What's wrong:
When the instance becomes inactive, the text client stops
letting me do anything. That by itself is a bug; it should
search for a valid instance if the current instance isn't
valid. In any case, "Fine," I said to myself, "I'll run
"status" to find out what my current instances are, and then
switch to one of them manually." But "status" wont' work
either -- "Incorrect instance (jik [2]) specified."
What should have happened:
Olcr should figure out when it gets an incorrect instance
error that it should switch to a valid instance. If it can't
do that, then the "status" command should work even if the
instance is invalid.
jik'
