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- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!jefff
- From: jefff@meaddata.com (Jeff Fleck)
- Subject: Re: MailTool3 and .signature files
- References: <BxGqMH.2DA@brunel.ac.uk> <BxIKz2.JsF@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Nov11.210739.21362@sq.sq.com>
- Sender: news@meaddata.com (Usenet Administrator)
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:33:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.223338.3402@meaddata.com>
- Lines: 58
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- In article <1992Nov11.210739.21362@sq.sq.com>, lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes:
- |> Including your .signature in OpenWindows 3 Mailtool Version 3:
- |>
- |> [1] slowest, most general
- |>
- |> type the filename
- |>
- |> select it
- |>
- |> hold down the Left key or Alt key and press i (for Include)
- |>
- |> Press return when the dialogue box appears
- |>
- |> the filename will be replaced by its contents.
- |>
- |> [2] faster
- |>
- |> Use Edit->Properties to make a template whose filename is the name of
- |> your .signature. Use Include->Templates to bring it into your message.
- |>
- |> [4] fastest, least general
- |>
- |> copy /usr/lib/.textswrc to your home directory
- |> chmod +w $HOME/.textswrc
- |> edit it to change (for example) the line after
- |> KEY_RIGHT(7) FILTER
- |> so that it looks like
- |> KEY_RIGHT(7) FILTER
- |> cat /home/sqlee/lee/.signature
- |>
- |> with /home/sqlee/lee changed to your login directory, of course.
- |>
- |> The next time you start mailtool or textedit, control-left-shift-R7
- |> will insert your .signature, replacing any selected text.
- |>
- |> Yes, control-shift-left-R7.
- |>
- |> If I can work out how to use a simpler key, I'll put this in the FAQ.
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- I just used the R3 key. It works great.
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- |>
- |> Lee
- |>
- |>
- |> --
- |> lee@sq.com (Liam Quin) the barefoot programmer; SoftQuad Inc +1 416 239 4801
- |> OPEN LOOK UI FAQ; Metafont list; HexSweeper NeWS game; lq-text text retrieval
- |> ``They thought him, and they justly thought him, one [lq-text-request@sq.com
- |> Sent to do more than he appeared to have done.'' Wm. Cowper, Conversation
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