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From: Jinfu@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: A pretty good sendmail.cf
Message-ID: <5060@cup.portal.com>
Date: 3 May 88 07:48:50 GMT
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I need some help in using the DM pad editor (ce) with /usr/ucb/Mail.
What I am trying to do is to use an alternative editor for the Mail 
program instead of the UN*X ones (ed or vi), since most our users are 
AEGIS minded (including myself :-). I redefine the EDITOR in the Mail 
program with the DM pad editor by this command in my .mailrc file:

set EDITOR=/user/chen/com/dmeditor

where the file dmeditor is a simple /com/sh script as following:

#! /com/sh
# dmeditor, DM pad editor
eon
xdmc ce ^1
# EOF

I was able to enter ~e in the Mail program to bring up a pad and to edit
it. However, after I saved the file (control-Y), the Mail program didn't
get the contents of the file. Closer examination shows that the temporary 
file created by the native ~e (ed) or ~v (vi) has the first character of 
the filename in uppercase. For example, /tmp/R00150, or /tmp/Ex00321, while 
the file created by the DM pad editor is in lower case (standard pre-SR10 
Aegis filename?) like /tmp/r00150. I'm not sure if this is the problem.

I would appreciate any help, expecially from UNIX gurus. Our site is 
running Domain/IX 9.5, Aegis 9.6.


Jinfu Chen
Motorola, Inc.

Jinfu@cup.portal.com
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