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- From: burress@twics.co.jp (Tim Burress)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Alternative callable editors in MAIL?
- Message-ID: <34147@twics.co.jp>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 14:44:30 GMT
- Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan
- Lines: 21
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- We're running VMS 5.5, and have lots of people logging in through captive
- accounts. The trouble is that they need to use MAIL and have the ability
- to edit their messages, BUT the default callable EDT editor is not sufficient
- for our multilingual/multistandard (whatever multistandard means) environment.
-
- For non-captive users, we simply use the MAIL$EDIT logical to point to a
- command procedure which is then spawned by mail, but the code inside MAIL
- will not allow this to work for captive users.
-
- So my question is whether there is a procedure for installing a different
- callable editor, and having MAIL use that one instead of EDT. I know it's a
- longshot, but the alternative is using the callable mail routines to write my
- own mailer, and it's not how I planned to spend my holiday.
-
- Thanks!
-
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- Tim Burress Internet: burress@twics.co.jp
- TWICS Co., Ltd.
- 1-21 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160 Japan
-