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From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Looking for .sig, or not
Message-ID: <7297@well.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 03:41:44 GMT
References: <8043@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <jef@rtsg.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, randy@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Randy Orrison) wrote:
}Why doesn't whatever copies in .signature look in $HOME?  What is it,
}anyway, that copies in .signature?  None of the man pages mention it
}(Pnews or inews or rn!).  I've tried setting $DOTDIR but that doesn't
}work either.

It varies from site to site.  At some sites, Pnews appends .signature;
at other sites, inews does it.  And then there are the sites where *both*
append it...

It sounds like your site is of the inews variety, since I know the code in
Pnews looks at DOTDIR, HOME, and LOGDIR.  Since you probably have no control
over what inews does, I suggest you make yourself a modified version of Pnews
that includes your sig, but from a different filename.  I use .newsignature.
---
Jef

             Jef Poskanzer   jef@rtsg.ee.lbl.gov   ...well!pokey
"If the barking of a dog disturbs your meditation, it is simplest to shoot the
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