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From: root@texbell.sbc.com (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Is there a global init file?
Message-ID: <195@texbell.sbc.com>
Date: 19 Aug 90 18:51:03 GMT
References: <188@coplex.UUCP>
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In article <188@coplex.UUCP> dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks) writes:

>   I have been unable to find any mention of this, but is there a global
>init file for elm?

I don't follow this group much anymore, and don't run the latest version
of Elm anymore, so I don't know if they put a global file in or not.
A lot of default stuff is pre-configured in elm.h at compilation.

However, it should be real easy to hack in a global .elmrc file
in the file "read_rc.c":


	/* Look for the elmrc file */
	sprintf(filename,"%s/%s", home, elmrcfile);
	if ((file = fopen(filename, "r")) == NULL) {
	  dprint(2,(debugfile,"Warning:User has no \".elm/elmrc\" file\n\n"));

	  /* look for old-style .elmrc file in $HOME */
	  sprintf(filename, "%s/.elmrc", home);
	  if (access(filename, 00) != -1) {
	    move_old_files_to_new();

	    /* try to open elmrc file again */
	    sprintf(filename,"%s/%s", home, elmrcfile);
	    if((file = fopen(filename, "r")) == NULL) {
	      dprint(2, (debugfile,
		"Warning: could not open new \".elm/elmrc\" file.\n"));

	---> /* Look for the global elmrc file */
	---> sprintf(filename,"%s", GLOBAL_ELMRC_FILE);
	---> if ((file = fopen(filename, "r")) == NULL) {
	  ---> dprint(2,(debugfile,"Warning:User has no \".elm/elmrc\" file\n\n"));


Some of the Elmheads can probably elaborate on what other effects this will
have.
--
Greg Hackney