Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!fts1!michael
From: michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson)
Subject: Re: Save excursions for mush?
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.080151.6729@fts1.uucp>
Keywords: mush save_excursions
Organization: Fountain Technical Services, Ottawa, ON
References: <1990Nov12.024506.13412@fts1.uucp> <2867@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 08:01:51 GMT

In article <2867@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:
>In article <1990Nov12.024506.13412@fts1.uucp> michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson) writes:
>>   I often find myself doing a lot of 
>>    set savrec=$record; 
>>    set record=blah;
>>    mail -lotsOfNeatOptions
>>    set record=$savrec
>
>build your own command:
>
>cmd foo "set saverec=$record; set record=blah; mail \!*; set record=$saverec"

  Sorry, I should have been more explicit: I want to use this in my macros. 
While interactive, I have a good enough memory to not worry about where I came from...

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