NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/mail/elm/3438

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From: [e-mail] (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elmrc complaint
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Date: 23 Nov 92 14:25:17 GMT
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cbarkley@alex (The DarkMage) writes:
>Actually, my complaint about the hardcoded pathnames in the elmrc
>file stems right from 2.4.11, so it's not the version number.  elm
>may be perfectly happy to use $HOME, but it's not creating the files
>that way.  I DEFINITELY don't want to have to edit all the elmrc files
>by hand (or spend almost as much time writing a script to do it for me).
>I want a way to convince elm to create the file with ~ or $HOME right
>off the bat.
Elm uses what its given.  If the options screen shows a full path name,
thats what it will write, same for the compiled in values or elm.rc file.

On values it builds out of the /etc/passwd file (remember it doesn't
use $HOME itself, it recomputes it) at run time it uses the full path
names as defaults and, yes, you will have to edit the elmrc file to
change those to $HOME or ~ syntax.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP          Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL11
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                 Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
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