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Article #550Re: 2 questions
From: Mike Khaw
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 1990 05:50
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 1990 05:50
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argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:
-In article <730@parcplace.com> khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes:
-> 1. How can I get mush to treat +/incoming/inbox as my spoolfile
-> for all commands, e.g., "mush -s ~/mail/incoming/inbox -H",
-> ":folder %", w/o compiling it into mush? The -s commandline option
-> doesn't do it.
-You can use the -m option to specify that the "spool file" is the
-argument to that switch.
-% mush -m +incoming/inbox
Sorry, my fingers slipped. I meant to use the -m switch and kept
typing -s for some odd reason. Thanks, -m works just fine.
-> 2. Is there a way to pass mush variables to an external executable
-> invoked by a "pipe" command; e.g., if I
->
-> :pipe "foo $folder $show_hdrs > /tmp/foo.out"
->
-> foo gets no command line arguments, as though "pipe" doesn't do
-> $ expansion. I've tried all kinds of variations of quoting (or
-> not quoting, but either I haven't found the right combination or
-> it just doesn't work at all.
-This should work. I don't know why it doesn't. It appears from
-the ':' you're using that you are executing this from curses mode.
-Does it act differently for line mode or command mode? Actually,
Nope, same results when I go into line mode first and then try to
execute the pipe command.
--
Mike Khaw
ParcPlace Systems, Inc., 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!parcplace!khaw From: khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: 2 questions Message-ID: <732@parcplace.com> Date: 21 Oct 90 05:50:11 GMT References: <730@parcplace.com> <143938@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: ParcPlace Systems, Mt. View, CA Lines: 35