Q:
> After working for a few hours from a remote computer, elm is down. I get a 
> message "An instantiation of ELM is already reading this mail."  How do
> I save a copy of the file suggested and to where?
> Thanks,

A:
This occurs if you abrutly break out of elm (i.e. your terminal session
dies).  While you are reading your mail a copy of your mailbox is put in
the /tmp directory with the name /tmp/mbox.username.  Since elm didn't
exit properly, this file was not deleted, so when you try to restart
elm, it checks out the /tmp directory and finds your mbox, so it decides
that you are already running elm elsewhere.

To fix this you should first check to see if your real mailbox actually
exists by typing:
	
	ls -l /usr/spool/mail/username

then you should look the copy of the mailbox that elm created

	ls -l /tmp/mbox.username

(change 'username' to your username)

If the mailbox in /tmp is older or the same date as the one in
/usr/spool/mail, you may delete the copy in /tmp  :

	rm /tmp/mbox.username

If the file in /tmp is newer, talk to me @ 8-2451

					Matt