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- From: scott@fokker.union.indiana.edu
- Subject: Re: elmrc complaint
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:21:17 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.
-
- Perhaps you should suggest that the users' environment reflect
- something pathwise that *doesn't* change? Elm only uses what it's
- given. The machines around my neck of the woods make sure that
- /u/<user> always works (by virtue of symbolic links).
-
- -Scott
-