VM won't work on TTY

This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.4 (patch 4) "Artificial Intelligence" [Lucid] (i386-debian-linux, M ule) of Mon Jul 30 2001 on eeyore configured using `configure --with-sound=native,esd '--cflags=-O2 -g -Wall ' --w ith-x11 --extra-verbose --with-site-lisp --statedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/shar e/info/xemacs-21.4.4 --prefix=/usr --error-checking=none --debug=no --dynamic -- without-postgresql --with-gpm=no --with_menubars=lucid --with_scrollbars=lucid - -with_dialogs=athena --docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/i386-debian-linux/mule/ --w ith-mule --with-canna=no --with-wnn=no --with-xim=xlib --with-xfs '--package-pat h=~/.xemacs:~/.xemacs/packages::/usr/share/xemacs21/packages:/usr/share/xemacs21 /mule-packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages' i386-debian-linux' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: The VM mail reader won't work when running xemacs on a TTY (i.e. not in X windows). The modeline says: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil Similar errors occur when you try to use VM from a gnuclient that's on a TTY and is connected to an xemacs that's already running VM under X. Recent keystrokes: up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up down down down down down down down down down down left left left up left left up left left SPC BS end right C-c C-c y e s RET C-x 1 up C-home C-end up up up up up up up misc-user Recent messages (most recent first): Sending...done Wrote /home/ssb22/.vm/Copyself Sending... Loading emacsbug...done Loading emacsbug... Sending...done Wrote /home/ssb22/.vm/Copyself Sending... Wrote /home/ssb22/InetPub/cgisource/access/batch/do-monash Making completion list... -- Silas S Brown, St John's College Cambridge UK http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~ssb22 "He that is hastening to get riches will not remain innocent" - Proverbs 28:20