Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!wjh+ From: wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Fred Hansen) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Yet Another Suggested Message System Feature Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 20:06:14 GMT References: <9102281929.AA18954@osc.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Excerpts from andrew.kermit: > I was thinking of a shell script, but maybe a Ness script would be more > convenient. I think the important thing is to get a hook in the right place > in AMS so the uncompression can happen automatically and AMS won't notice it. My message could have been clearer. What I was proposing is Ness code to reinterpret the menu items in Messages so the shell script gets called. However, the shell script could easily be incorporated within the Ness script. Sigh. It just occurs to me that clicking on a folder name or message caption are situations where decompression might take place--and there is not a good way to intercept this in Ness. What we can intercept are the menu options "Read By Name" or any menu option which directly reads a folder. If there is enough call for it, we can add "events" to messages for clicks on folder names and these can then be intercepted appropriately with Ness code. Fred Hansen