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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: How do you get the home directory in the .mh_profile?
Keywords: home directory, MH, mh_profile, portability
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.210604.11374@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 21:06:04 GMT
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In-Reply-To: scott@wiley.uucp (Scott Simpson)

In article <26DAA3D0.737B@wilbur.coyote.trw.com>, scott@wiley (Scott Simpson) writes:
| How do you get the home directory in the .mh_profile? I have a line
| like
| ali: -alias /home/nyssa/0/scott/.aliases
| in my .mh_profile and I would like to substitute something like
| ali: -alias $HOME/.aliases
| or
| ali: -alias ~/.aliases
| Neither work.

A silly workaround that might just do the trick.

ali: -alias aliases

and then "ln -s $HOME/your-mail-dir/aliases $HOME/.aliases" to the shell.

or skip the second step if you really don't need to see the aliases in
your home directory.

's'what I do.  Works.  (Actually, I use "AliasFile: aliases", but you
get the drift.)

Just another MH beginning-hacker,
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