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- Subject: RE: Has anything like this ever been done before?
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- From: "(Michael
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:39:29 -0600 (CST)
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- In a message of Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:12:03 -0600 (CST)
- Received on 23 Jan 1993, 20:30 GMT
-
- Erek Adams <92ADAMS@HANNA2.NLU.EDU> wrote
- to: Text Processing Utility (TPU) Language Discussion List <INFO-TPU@SHSU.edu>
-
- >Hello tpu.gurus!
- >
- > I've got a series of things that I would like Eve/TPU to do for me.
- >From everything that I have read and/or seen, TPU can do it for me. What I'd
- >like to know is has someone else ever written something like this? If not,
- >then where and at what should I start with in the TPU manual?
- >
- > I'd like it to do:
- >
- > 1) Run a DCL command file, and capture the output into another buffer.
- >
- > Yes, I know that can be done with DCL etc.., but I wanted a more
- >'elegant' solution to it. I'd like it all automatic. Minimal user effort
- >required.
-
- I don't know if someone has done this but for a start look at
- HELP TPU CREATE_PROCESS in EVE/TPU. You probably don't want to
- create a new process for every procedure you execute so some more
- code would porbably be required to make it efficient.
-
-
- >
- > 2) Have it look for the 'From:' line in a message, extract the persons
- >name/address and put it into a format like '*Name/Addr just extracted* wrote:'
- >
- > Basically a 'poor mans newsreader.'
- >
-
- Get Peter Galbraith's PEVE_MAILQUOTE.TPU. Does even more and
- works really great. Um... I still have check a fix he sent me
- over a week ago...
-
-
- Michael
-
- --
- Michael Lemke
- Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
- (michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])
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