Article 159900 of comp.os.vms:
Ferry Bolhar-Nordenkampf <bol@adv.magwien.gv.at> writes:

>VMS V7.0 MAIL always returns %X10000001 as return status - regardless of
>the displayed message or the error condition. This is a bug - we've
>reported this to DEC. They told us that MAIL was rewritten entirely for
>V7 but that the old V6 image still exists and may be invoked with
>MAIL/OLD. So i'd recommed that if you need the behaviour of the V6 mail,
>use MAIL/OLD in your procedures.

looks like it's there on my V7.1 system:

$ d disk1:[vms$common.sysexe]mail*.exe

Directory _CONNOR$DKA100:[VMS$COMMON.SYSEXE]

MAIL.EXE;1                                       467/468     19-OCT-1996 02:25:56.61
MAIL_OLD.EXE;1                                   345/348     19-OCT-1996 02:26:14.63
MAIL_SERVER.EXE;1                                 50/52      19-OCT-1996 02:28:50.86

Total of 3 files, 862/868 blocks.
$

>DEC announced us that this bug will be corrected in V7.1.

next time i boot, i'll test it out.

>"Wenn hier einer schuld ist, dann immer nur der Computer."

i give up.  is this "when all else fails, blame the computer"?

ok
dpm
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