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- From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David W. Tamkin)
- Subject: Re: mail directory saving
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.022902.11002@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois 60657
- References: <1992Aug11.181808.22207@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:29:02 GMT
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- kaena@haleiwa.austin.ibm.com (D. Kaena Freitas) wrote in
- <1992Aug11.181808.22207@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>:
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- | You set the mail directory, but if you don't specify "=" the mail message
- | will never go there but rather the current directory.
-
- I found that annoying too, not only for s)ave and C)opy but also (in fact
- more so) for c)hange, since I use filter to throw my mail to assorted
- folders.
-
- My way of dealing with it was to write a script that boils down to something
- that in many shells could be a function or an alias (I have other things in
- it that make a script preferable): essentially, it does
-
- (cd $HOME/Mail ; elm "$@")
-
- [Of course, since I'm in a script anyway, I don't use the parentheses.]
-
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