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From: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: mail icon / auto window selecting
Summary: I got it for you...
Message-ID: <992@icus.islp.ny.us>
Date: 24 Oct 89 04:56:17 GMT
References: <1989Oct22.000322.1187@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, New York
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In article <1989Oct22.000322.1187@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us 
(Todd Day) writes:
...
|>When mail comes in for me, the mail icon lights up.  I want to be able
|>to click on the mail icon and autoboot elm for me.  I know of one way
|>to do this making a C program called "/usr/bin/email" that runs elm.
|>However, often I leave elm running in a window.  If I click on the icon
|>and elm is already running, the second version of elm complains that
|>I am already running elm (it checks a lock file in tmp).  What I want
|>is a program that checks to see if that lock file exists, and if it
|>does, finds the window that elm is running in and brings it to the
|>foreground.
|>
...

What you are looking for, I just posted to unix-pc.sources and comp.sys.att.
It's my email.c program with the proper enhancements to allow what you want,
and select the already running Mail window.  I liked your idea, so I
implemented it!

-Lenny
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