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From: marvit%hplpm@HPLABS.HP.COM (Peter Marvit)
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Subject: Re: How can you rename MH commands without symlinks?
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Date: 22 Nov 89 16:36:31 GMT
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[[ Jerry Peek asks how to "rename" MH comands on systems without symbolic
links ]]

My solution in days of yore was to create a small shell script with the
name I wanted and put the appropriate MH invocation.  To use Jerry's
example, the file ~/bin/thanks would contain:

	#!/bin/sh
	#Give thanks
	repl -form thankscomps -annotate -editor cat -query

The rest would be the same.  Performance is a bit worse than the symbolic
link, but the interface is still quite clean.  The main problem is that you
must remember customize the script, rather than .mh_profile.

	-Peter "Thanks goodness MH is stable ;-)" Marvit

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