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From: chaffee@reed.bitnet (Not Max)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: easy help question, and 2 feature questions
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Date: 14 Sep 90 03:06:15 GMT
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In article <2952@mtung.ATT.COM> luke@mtung.ATT.COM (S. Luke Jones) writes:
>1.  We're using ELM 2.3 PL 0.  If subsequent patches are in
>comp.unix.sources archives somewhere I can get them, but what then?
>I gather there's a program called 'patch.'  Where can I get it, and
>what do I do with it once I have it?  Tips?  Pointers?  Anyone?

Do you have ftp?  You can get patches 1-6 from mthvax.cs.miami.edu, in the
elm/ directory.  If you don't have ftp, send mail to bitftp@pucc with the
word "HELP" in the message body.

>2.  I like to organize my mail in a hierarchical structure.  
...
>Does this seem like a useful feature to anyone else?  

Quite.  It's occured to me too.  Is it on the wishlist for 2.4?

>3.  Another enhancement might be to do automatic uncompression. ...
>It would be nice if ELM would look at a
>file and automagically un(pack,compress) it, if its name ends in .[zZ]
>Any interest in this feature?

Yeah!  Shouldn't be too hard to add, either (spoken by one who hasn't got
time to be reading news, much less patching elm).

 - Alex