Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!pacbell.com!pacbell!premenos!mtdiablo!rob From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Boldbear) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: How do I avoid paths in my elmrc Message-ID: <1990Nov27.161621.16643@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US> Date: 27 Nov 90 16:16:21 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Mt. Diablo Software Solutions Lines: 21 In article Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) writes: >Is there a way to give the path to my signature and other files as >relational to my $HOME directory? It is a real pain to advice people >on changing their elmrc every single time there's a change in the tree >structure of our disks... Elm understands the $variable notation for environmental variables, the ~/ notation for one's home directory and the ~user/ notation for user's home directory. In addition, Elm has it's own symbols as follows: =,+,% for the user's folder directory ! for the user's incoming mailbox > for the user's received_mail folder < for the user's sent_mail folder -- Rob Bernardo Mt. Diablo Software Solutions _ / email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US phone: (415) 827-4301 <_/_>< "Putting dogma ahead of people is the antithesis of compassion. But / that's exactly what many avowed Christians who profess `compassion' do." -Me