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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: default elmrc?
Summary: Good idea!
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.122727.11861@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 14 Mar 91 12:27:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.013734.2473@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Mar14.040124.29379@DSI.COM>
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1991Mar14.040124.29379@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>et@ocf.berkeley.edu (Eric Thompson) writes:
>>When people who haven't used ELM before type "elm", it asks if it should
>>set up their .elm/ and Mail/ directories for them.  They also get a default
>>elmrc.
>No, they don't get a default elmrc.  That file is only created when
>the user does a save of the options from the options screen.
>
>>I know that some of the defaults for this standard elmrc come from
>>Configure, and I'm not worried about those.  The other settings, however,
>>don't seem to be settable to a default anywhere.
>Their is no global elmrc, but the docs (especially the config doc)
>talk about changing the code for changing the defaults.  A global
>elmrc has been discussed, but is not on the schedule, for now its
>up to the installed to change those in the code.

I think that Eric's idea is excellent.  This would be very useful for
systems with lots of novice users.  Using code that is already present
in ELM it sould be possible to set up an elmrc file that is a copy of a
default one stored by the system administrator, but with the name and
paths corrected with information from the passwd file.

I've been meaning to set up a script to do this, but give it a thought?

Bill
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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