Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!crash!simpact!jeh From: jeh@simpact.com Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: Giving NEWS an internal news command at startup Message-ID: <806.259b970e@simpact.com> Date: 29 Dec 89 23:55:41 GMT References: Organization: Simpact Associates, San Diego CA Lines: 25 In article , JHWELCH@AMHERST.BITNET (Jonathan_Welch) writes: > I've been modifying my copy of news.c when new releases come out to enable > one to supply an internal news command to be executed after news has > started up [by specifying the command as command-line parameters to NEWS, eg > > $ news select ecs.announce > > Geoff - if you think this feature is a good idea perhaps you could put > it into forthcoming releases. This is nice, but I would like to repeat my earlier request that the NEWS_INI file be allowed to contain generalized commands and not just DEFINE/KEY . For instance I (and all users at my shop) would like to specify SET LINE_EDITING automatically upon NEWS startup; I should be able to put this command in the NEWS_INI file. A NEWS command found on the DCL command line, as in the example supplied by Mr. Welch, should of course be executed after any commands found in NEWS_INI. --- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA Chair, VMSnet [DECUS uucp] and Internals Working Groups, DECUS VAX Systems SIG Internet: jeh@simpact.com, or if that fails, jeh@crash.cts.com Uucp: ...{crash,scubed,decwrl}!simpact!jeh