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- From: michael@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: What should be in login.com?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.185109.20524@chpc.utexas.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 18:51:09 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.105507.7408@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <1992Dec18.230714.19508@chpc.utexas.edu> <BzJKMu.Iq7@unix.amherst.edu>
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- In article <BzJKMu.Iq7@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec18.230714.19508@chpc.utexas.edu> michael@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Dec18.105507.7408@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> linnoise@bigboy (LN) writes:
- >>
- >>>Anything you want. I have mine set up logicals and symbols to access dirs
- >>>that have very long names, prompt me for various things like enabling OPCOM
- >>>(check for interactive mode before prompting!), setting up mail to use EVE,
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>Why do you do this in LOGIN.COM? SET EDITOR TPU in *MAIL* exactly once
- >>is all you need. It is remembered "for ever".
- >
- >Unless you want to use customized section files or the like. The only
- >way I've found to do this (to enable quoting, signature files, and the
- >like) is with the logical MAIL$EDIT.
-
- This is maybe the simplest way to set it up but certainly not the only
- one and definately the slowest as it spawns a subprocess. In TPU parse
- the filename of the file you are editing. If it is something like
- MAIL_*.TMP you can safely assume TPU has been called by MAIL and you can
- fire up your special mail commands. I could e-mail you Peter
- Galbraith's excellent mail quote procedure which does exactly this (and
- more).
-
- Michael
- --
- Michael Lemke
- Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
- (michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])
-