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From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: changing mail directory
Keywords: sysV
Message-ID: <2965@ci.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Oct 88 02:50:58 GMT
References: <286@mccc.UUCP> <390@westmark.UUCP> <305@mccc.UUCP> <1162@mrspoc.UUCP> <484@genesis.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <484@genesis.ATT.COM> andys@shlepper.ATT.COM (a.b.sherman) writes:
>To change local delivery, you still need the source to the vanilla
>/bin/mail that ships with your operating system.

Or, you could always use my favorite solution - just crank up emacs
(or whatever your favorite editor is, but not ed or ex/edit/vi, 'cause
they can't do this), and change it in the binary.  Just as long as
the string you're changing is of equal or greater length than what you're
changing it to, you'll be fine.  Be careful not to change the total size
of the file.  Sort of grody, but it works.

--Pat.