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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Suggestion for next Elm release
Keywords: finger elm
Message-ID: <292@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 89 23:25:42 GMT
References: <291@van-bc.UUCP> <3832@itivax.iti.org>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <3832@itivax.iti.org> scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
>
>I think this is overkill and non-portable.  On hosts which support
>the finger command already, the keystrokes !finger will do what you
>want.  On machines that don't have finger we'd have to re-implement
>it (which has already been done in various forms).  Elm is a mail
>reading tool, not a systems/user inquiry tool.  Leave fingerint to
>the finger command.

Hm, I just tried !finger from the elm command line and got a list of the
users running on van-bc. Not quite what I wanted or suggested. 

Specifically what I want is to run finger with the address of the sender of
the message that is currently selected. For example if I have a message from
scs@itivax.iti.org the the finger command should be the equivalent of:

	finger scs@itivax.iti.org

And try typing that from memory without making a mistake.

jtc@tessera.wimsey.bc.ca made a different suggestion. How about a different
way to allow another program to be run using the sender of the the current
message as the arguement. 

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