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From: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: dead.letter twist
Message-ID: <2504ADE7.135E@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 89 05:40:54 GMT
References: <24FF7EB4.54ED@drivax.UUCP> <4540@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA
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schaefer@ogccse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
>You can always
>	set dead = '|dead.script'

Nice idea, if it worked.  Apparently, the pipe character is not implemented
in the dead.letter handling, so I threw in a quick fix:

*** mail.c.orig	Sat Jul  1 12:25:10 1989
--- mail.c	Tue Sep  5 22:13:46 1989
***************
*** 1836,1842 ****
  	return;
      if (!(p = do_set(set_options, "dead")))
  	p = "~/dead.letter";
!     if (!(dead = open_file(p, FALSE)))
  	return;
      (void) time (&t);
      fflush(ed_fp);
--- 1836,1842 ----
  	return;
      if (!(p = do_set(set_options, "dead")))
  	p = "~/dead.letter";
!     if (!(dead = open_file(p+(*p=='|'), (*p=='|'))))
  	return;
      (void) time (&t);
      fflush(ed_fp);

Then it works great.  Thanx.
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