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From: frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US (Frank Bicknell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Conditional Statements in elmrc
Message-ID: <327@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US>
Date: 14 Nov 89 12:54:59 GMT
References: <967@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US (Frank Bicknell)
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Organization: UniSource, Inc. -- Sarasota, FL
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In article <967@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller) writes:
> I find that there are certain defaults that change for me
> depending on where I am, e.g. when I am at work I want the Print
> command on the main menu to print on the system printer, when I
> am out of town, I have an alternative for sending the stuff back
> to my PC.  ...
> 
> I thought about just adding some code to .login to copy the
> appropriate file to .elm/elmrc, but then begin to think about
> what might happen if I had multiple sessions going :-(

Well, I have used a variation on that very idea for some time
with '.exrc' files for vi.  I use links instead of copying,
however, linking .exrc.ansi to .exrc in my home directory when I
log in on an ansi terminal for example.  

The same sort of idea could be used for .elm/elmrc.  I solve the
problem of multiple sessions by checking to see if I'm already
logged in; then not linking and printing a warning message in
case I am.  Since I can only be at one terminal at a time, it
rarely presents a problem :) .
-- 
Frank Bicknell
UniSource; 1405 Main St, Ste 709; Sarasota, FL 34236
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