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- From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Wishlist item for "next" patch
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 20:06:31 -0500
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
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- References: <1992Dec18.204149.25084@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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- klr@umbc4.umbc.edu (Kurt Reisler) writes:
- >Obviously this is a LOW priority item. One of the things that I always
- >wind up doing on my systems which are running elm is to 1) change the
- >default_printout string to be "cat %s | mp | lpr -Psmurf" (on the BSD
- >boxes) and "cat %s | mp | lp -dsmurf" (where smurf is a LPS-20
- >Postscript networked printer); and 2) prepend a "." to the name of all
- >of the "temp_*" files (to hide them from the casual /tmp cruisers).
- >Both of these are done in hdrs/sysdefs.h after completing a Configure
- >run. Although it is not a major hassle, it seems like it is something
- >that could be handled in the Configure script, at some future patch
- >level.
-
- The first, can be performed very will using the global elm.rc file
- and won't make it in. This one really should be phased out and
- only work from the elm.rc file, but....
-
- The second is too site specific.
-
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL17
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