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From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: filemgr problem
Message-ID: <215@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 91 22:37:30 GMT
Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Teradata Corp., Irvine
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I am trying to configure my filemgr on my Sparc to use a different default
document editor.  Unfortunately, the file mgr insists on passing it standard
XView options.  My editor of choice gets *real* confused by this, it treats
the X,Y position parameters as *file* parameters.

What I would *like* is a way to tell the filemgr how to pass options to
my editor (you know, like keywords in the command prototype that expand to
various things).   Or, failing that, I would like to get filemgr to use
a minimal interface, and just pass the file name (no options).

I have looked at the documentation we have available, but it is insufficient.
The only expansion keyword it mentions is $FILE, which is nice, but not
sufficient.  It *does* however suggest that such a solution is avaialable,
if undocumented.

[Of course, if I *have* to I could write a shell script that interprets the
XView options into the form I need, but I consider that a gross hack].
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uunet!tdatirv!sarima				(Stanley Friesen)