david,
the answer to your question is in the FAQ (frequently asked
questions) document that comes out once a month in comp.mail.mh
(as well as news.answers). you can find it by searching for "FAQ"
in the subject lines. if the FAQ is somehow no longer on your
system, complain to your news admins about expiring articles
with Expire headers in them.
if you cannot find the FAQ on your system, you can obtain it
yourself. the FAQ can be ftped:
pit-manager.mit.edu [18.72.1.58] /pub/usenet/news.answers/mh-faq
/pub/usenet/news.answers/nn-faq
if you don't have FTP access, you can request a copy of the FAQ by
sending mail to mail-server(_at_)pit-manager(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu containing
one (or
both) of the following:
send usenet/news.answers/mh-faq
send usenet/news.answers/nn-faq
next time, please consult the FAQ first. but for this time, here is
the relevant section of the FAQ to answer your question. so that i
can improve the FAQ posting, if you received any answers that you
think are better than this one, please forward them to me. or, if
you had looked at the faq already and didn't find what you were
looking for, please tell me how i could have made the information
easier to find. thanks!
Subject: What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed" messages.
From: Using MH-26
If your users are using an AT&T version of "vi", it's exiting with
non-zero status (supposedly a count of the "errors" during the edit).
Move "vi" to "broken_vi" and put it its place:
#! /bin/sh
/usr/ucb/broken_vi $*
exit 0
Then complain to your vendor that "vi" is broken, and they should
fix it. --John Romine
--bw