Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Jinfu
From: Jinfu@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Using DM ce to edit mail, no go
Message-ID: <5479@cup.portal.com>
Date: 16 May 88 07:32:35 GMT
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This is a follow-up of my previous message about using DM ce in UNIX
mail program. Several people sent me e-mails with some helpful
information so I am posting them here as well.

1)      The DM is not case sensitive under SR9.6/9.7. To defeat
this, one can either use an undocumented environment variable,
DOWNCASE. Put this line

 env DOWNCASE 'false'

in your `node_data/startup.xxx file, or set it in a shell:

$ DOWNCASE := 'false'
$ export DOWNCASE

will make the DM case sensitive(try this /com/sh to see real
case-sensitive filename!)

2)      Or quote the filename when passing it to the DM:

ce 'Foobar';

3)      However, even with these helps, to use CE editor in UNIX
mail still need to write a program to perform function similar to CE
AND wait for the program to finish before returning to the shell.
george@hyper.lap.upenn.edu posted a C program here to do this. In
case anyone missing the posting, it is basically two pad calls:

pad_$create_window /* open a DM pad for read mode or write mode */

pad_$edit_wait /* wait until the pad is close */


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Jinfu Chen
jinfu@cup.portal.com
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