mmgetfilenm
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NAME
/usr/local/lib/mm/mmgetfilename - Ask the user to name a file in a given format
/usr/local/lib/mm/mmgetchar - read one char
SYNOPSIS
-
/usr/local/lib/mm/mmgetfilename format-name file-name
-
x=`/usr/local/lib/mm/mmgetchar`
DESCRIPTION
The
mmgetfilename
program will ask the user for the name of a file in the specified format,
and will copy that file to the file-name given as the second argument.
If this doesn't sound very useful by itself, you're right. However, this
turns out to be all you need in order to add some useful functionality to
mailcap-oriented programs such as mailto(1). For example, the following line
in a mailcap file allows mailto to help the user include PostScript in
outgoing mail:
application/postscript ; \
lpr -Pipa %s ; \
label="Include a Postscript File";\
compose="getfilename Postscript %s"
The
mmgetchar
simply reads one character in and echo's it to stdout.
This is implemented as a script so that it can be customized
by the system administrators.
SEE ALSO
BUGS
Unfortunately it seems impossible to have a portable version of for
single char reads
that can simply be embedded into a script. We're still trying though.
COPYRIGHT
AUTHOR
Stuart Lynne
Adapted from getfilename(1) by Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- SEE ALSO
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- BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- AUTHOR
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