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Re: named pipes in Edit

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From: Alex Blakemore
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 02:22
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In article <Jan07.182928.22404@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> scott@abyss.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Scott Denning) writes:

> Does anybody know how to save and name pipes and commands in the Utilities  
> sub-menu in Edit? 

edit ~/.commanddict ~/.pipedict and ~/.editdict for commands, pipes and the
expansion dictionary.

> how do you set Edit to default to the C-shell  
> instead of the Bourne shell when executing piped instructions?

how about 
menu_entry      csh script_name
in .pipedict

or putting
#! /bin/csh 
at the top of your script
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