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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Help me
Message-ID: <1991May13.010900.26296@DSI.COM>
Date: 13 May 91 01:09:00 GMT
References: <1991May12.225337.18788@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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ssowder@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Sean Sowder) writes:
>Okay I am very new to elm (an hour or so).  I do have some questions.
>After reading alot of this newsgroup, consulting on Quartz, interactive
>help in the mail, and man elm I STILL have questions.
Please, also refer to the Reference Guide and the Users Guide, they
both answer a lot of the questions.  They are part of the Elm distribution
and if you didn't install Elm, bug the person who did to print you a copy.

>I read that other were complaining about the .signature file being
>included in the editing of a new message, well I do not see mine, and it
>is not sent with my message.  Do i have the move the .signature into
>~/.elm/.signature or something?  
The .sig's are in the home directory, and must be specified in the
elmrc file (in .elm).  Use the save options command under the option
menu to create the initial elmrc file for editing.

>Okay with aliases.  I see there are like three files that have something
>to do with this.  All I want to do is create a file like the .mailrc
>file containing alias help comp.mail.elm.  But so I am still able to
>have help aliased to apropos in the .cshrc
You are confused, Elm alaises have nothing to do with commands. They
have to do with short nick names for longer addresses.  They only
effect Elm and only when an address is called for.


>One final question, how do I include a file.  I saw alot of info about
>this but little made since to me.  No easy ~r filename.ext huh?  Is
>there a command in vi to include a file?
The 'built-in' or 'none' editor (text appender) supports the ~r and ~m
syntax.

When in an editor, using the 'readmsg' command with no arguments should
cat the current message.  (In vi typing !!readmsg on an empty line should
insert the current message )

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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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