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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Hey Syd, here's a couple of ideas!
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.175945.392@DSI.COM>
Date: 24 Jun 91 17:59:45 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.035847.18287@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991Jun21.130158.19374@DSI.COM> <1991Jun24.145828.3137@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1991Jun24.145828.3137@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>How about an rn-like pipe-to-process for saving/detaching?  If Elm
>itself just observes the "outer" Content-Length: header, it could
>pipe the entire message off to another program that would know how
>to extract the pieces and interactively prompt for filenames. 
>The low-level support is already there for pipe-to-process anyway,
>but it would be nice to have a dedicated command for it.
There is already a dedicated command for it.  Its called | and it
pipes the message, headers and all to any process you'd like.

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