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From: scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Location of .signature files
Message-ID: <1297@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 25 May 89 21:00:33 GMT
References: <224@levels.sait.edu.au> <616@ispi.UUCP>
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In article <616@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>In article <224@levels.sait.edu.au> ccdn@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL) writes:
>>While we're making suggestions for the next version of elm:  I'd like the
>>two dashes that are put above the signature, removed.  In particular, they
>>offend my sense of aesthetics; and if I did want them, I could always put
>>them in my signature file.
>
> . . . rn and/or postnews will not accept a .signature file with more
>than 4 lines in it.  If the dashes are put in the .signature file then
>there is one line less for the signature.

Elm has the ability to take signatures from alternate locations.  The
following entries from a .elmrc file illustrate this:

   # local ".signature" file to append to appropriate messages...
   localsignature = /users/f/scs/.elm/sig.local

   # remote ".signature" file to append to appropriate messages...
   remotesignature = /users/f/scs/.elm/sig.remote

This lets me use an informal sig for at work, a formal one for
remote mail, and a downright strange on for news.  Put long sigs
(and `--' if you want it) in the ones you specify for elm, and a max
of four in the one for news.

Steve Simmons         Just another midwestern boy
scs@vax3.iti.org  -- or -- ...!sharkey!itivax!scs
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