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- If you are a new user, you probably have only a few files and keep them in
- your home directory (the one you are in at login), and you may possibly
- never change to another directory. However, once you begin to use other
- directories, you need to be aware of what directory MM is using if you
- don't specify a directory when you use a filename.
-
- In Unix, each process has its own current working directory (cwd). When
- you start an MM process from the shell, the MM process starts out with the
- same cwd as the shell. While you are running MM, you can check MM's cwd
- with the PWD command and change it with the CD command. If you suspend MM
- (with EXIT, QUIT or SUSPEND), and change the cwd of the shell, the cwd of
- the suspended MM process does not change. In either case then, the cwd of
- your MM process may then be different from that of the shell. This
- situation is not a problem, unless you are unaware of it.
-
- You can name a directory path every time you use a filename. In practice,
- this is tedious to do. Instead, you can use just the filename, and MM will
- default either to its current working directory, or to the one specified
- by the variable MAIL-DIRECTORY (which defaults to your home directory).
-
- The following default to MM's current working directory. You can determine
- what directory that is with the command PWD. To use a different directory,
- either use the CD command to change directory, or give a directory path
- with the filename.
- commands: list take fcc
- variables: default-fcc-list
- addresses: fcc *filename @filename @@filename
- text-mode: control-b [to insert a file]
-
- The following default to the variable MAIL-DIRECTORY, which is your home
- directory, indicated by tilde (~), unless you have changed it; verify with
- SHOW MAIL-DIRECTORY if you are uncertain. Again, to use a different
- directory, you can give a directory path with the filename.
- commands: copy move get examine write insert
- save-draft restore-draft
- variables: header-options-file saved-messages-file
-
- If you are giving a directory path with the filename, usually the best way
- is to give a path from your home directory (~/). For example, the file
- "exams" in your subdirectory "schoolwork" can be named as ~/schoolwork/exams.
-
-
- The following refer to programs (commands) rather than text files. Like
- the shell, MM uses the PATH environment variable to search for the program,
- and similarly you can specify a path with the command name to make it use
- a program from a place not in the PATH.
- variables: crt-filter editor finger incoming-mail mmail-path
- movemail-path print-filter speller
- text-mode: control-e control-f control-p
-
- To see your PATH, type "!echo $PATH" at any MM prompt, or "echo $PATH" at
- the shell prompt.
-
- For more help type "help" and one of these topics:
- cd pwd
-
- For more information on the use of directories,
- type "!man" and any of the following (from any MM prompt),
- or type "man"and any of the following (from the shell prompt):
- cd pwd ksh
-