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- From: richb@jans.Eng.Sun.COM (Rich Burridge)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: Binding a filetype to run a program in a shelltool window
- Date: 13 Sep 1992 18:50:43 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
- Lines: 16
- Message-ID: <lb73c3INN1uv@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Sep12.175715.26219@lth.se>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: jans
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- In article <1992Sep12.175715.26219@lth.se> kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson) writes:
- >I'm having problems when I bind mail folders to run:
- >
- > shelltool elm -f $FILE
- >
- >This does bring up a window and start elm correctly with the right
- >folder, but elm thinks that the screen is not the correct size...
-
- Aww, tell me about it. Try:
-
- shelltool sh -c "sleep 2; elm -f $FILE"
-
- Bogus huh? Perhaps in the fullness of time, taking all things into
- consideration and allowing for all eventualities, it is conceivably
- possible that somebody might think about fixing this problem with
- shelltool. Nah...
-