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- PCELM
- =====
-
- PCELM is an external electronic mailer program which can either
- be called from NOS (with the NOS 'mail' command) or directly from
- the DOS prompt.
-
- PCELM has a friendly menu-driven interface, and is largely
- self-explanatory. It contains a built-in text editor, support
- for message address filtering, screen colour mapping and other
- very useful features. PCELM prompt messages and error messages
- are kept in a separate file, which you can edit into your own
- language if required.
-
- Before use, PCELM requires a startup file (PCELM.RC) to specify
- certain initial parameter settings. See the MASTERS directory
- for an example.
-
- Also, PCELM requires that certain DOS environment variables be
- set up before use.
-
- In particular, it is essential that the HOME variable is set up
- correctly, defined with a D-O-S pathname, N-O-T a SUBSTituted
- drive name.
-
- For example, PCELM will work properly if you define HOME as:
-
- SET HOME=C:\NOS <<<<<<<< THIS WORKS
-
- but will NOT work if you set HOME as:
-
- SET HOME=N:\ <<<<<<<< THIS DOES N-O-T WORK
-
-
- See !NOSINIT and NOSENV.BAT for further details.
-
- [PCELM is probably the mailer of choice, offering far more
- features than BM or ELM or the built-in NOS mailbox].
-
- WARNING: PCELM is LARGE! You will need to make as much
- convential RAM available as possible if you want to start PCELM
- from NOS (with the 'mail' command). Otherwise you will have to
- run PCELM independently (from the DOS command line), or run ELM.
-