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From: MAG@IBM.COM
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: Changing AMS headers and more.
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Date: 19 Sep 90 18:45:16 GMT
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Thanks to everyone for the quick responses and suggestions..

I am currently trying to add headers through "addmenu" , but I am having
some problems.
Here is what I have in the .messagesinit file:

addmenu messages-compound-operation ",Send External Message~52" messages
messages inherit "messages-reply-to-sender;
messages-sendmessage-compound sendmessage-add-header X-External-Networks;
messages-sendmessage-compound sendmessage-headers-textview-compound
textview-self-insert yes;
messages-sendmessage-compound sendmessage-set-not-modified"

And this is what I get in my "messages Composing" window:

X-External-Networks: \311
To:
Subject:
CC:

The problems are:
 1) There is no cursor anywhere in the window, if I start to type, the
letters appear on the "CC" line. If I hit cursor return, nothing happens
(the invisible cursor seems to still be on the "CC" line.).  The only
way it works is if I click the mouse button on one of the header fields,
then the cursor appears and cursor return works fine.
2) How can I add a default value ("yes") to the new header?.  The
text-self-insert doesn't seem to work.

I like to suggest that AMS should work similar to XMH. XMH has
~/Mail/components file, where the user can customize the compose
headers.  Can anyone from CMU comment on this suggestion?


How can I make messages come up faster?.  It seems to take forever on a
IBM/RT AIX 2.2.1.

	Thanks
	Marlon
	T.J. Watson AIX Information Center
	mag@ibm.com