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Mail:  elm displays "sh: kterm: not found" when reading message


Q.  When I try to read a mail message with elm, elm says:

         ---Executing: kterm
         sh: kterm: not found
         Command failed:  kterm - geometry +0+0  -e more /tmp/mm.a26923
         /dev/null

    This message appears after the header, in the body of the message.
    This happens only with certain messages.

A.  This happens when elm tries valiantly to display a MIME-encoded message
    that contains Japanese kanji characters.  But because you're not
    running on an X-Windows terminal that has access to the kanji terminal
    program (kterm), you get the error message.


The examples of this we've seen have that error message followed by some
English text -- MIME-compatible programs are often smart enough to include
fallbacks like that.  So maybe you're seeing some, or even *all*, of the
message.  Ask your correspondent or the poster what they put in the message
originally.
 

(24-May-95/maiedskn/MJT)
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