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From: ANK@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (ANIL KHULLAR)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: symbols in mail ?
Message-ID: <8801020215.AA19993@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 2 Jan 88 00:51:00 GMT
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>From:         rdavenport@GTEWIS.ARPA
>
>    I would like to know if there is a way to define symbols in DCL that can
>  be used when in MAIL. What I'd like is to be able to define something like:
>  $ mail$ext_vax  :== extract/append [.mail]info_vax.text
>
>  so I can say in mail :
>
>  MAIL> ext_vax
>
>  and have it execute "extract/append [.mail]info_vax.text".
>
>    I know it can be done for some programs, like VAX ACS, but is there some
>  thing similar for VMS MAIL (on VMS 4.5)?
>
>    Any help will be appreciated,

I think you could do it in two steps

        1. Create a file MAIL$KEYDEFS.INI where can define any key
          such as DEFINE/KEY /TERMINATE/NOECHO/NOLOG PF4 "extract/append .."

        2. In your LOGIN.COM  add the following
          $ DEFINE MAIL$INIT SYS$LOGIN:MAIL$KEYDEFS.INI

Everytime you use mail this key will be mapped to PF4


hope this helps