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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!news.byu.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!scd.hp.com!hpscdm!cupnews0.cup.hp.com!pasq
  3. From: pasq@cup.hp.com (Mark Di Pasquale)
  4. Subject: Re: How to redirect my new mail to a file
  5. Sender: news@cupnews0.cup.hp.com
  6. Message-ID: <BxBFou.L6M@cup.hp.com>
  7. Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:26:54 GMT
  8. References: <Bw8IGz.5LE@cs.bham.ac.uk>
  9. Organization: Hewlett-Packard
  10. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]
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  12.  
  13. You might try writing a program that redirects stdin to your own private
  14. mail file.  Then you can call that program in your .forward file:
  15.  
  16.     "| /users/you/bin/program"
  17.  
  18. Also, on my machine, I can copy and edit /usr/mail/pasq.  Perhaps one of
  19. these ideas will help.
  20.  
  21. --
  22. Regards,
  23. Mark DiPasquale
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