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- From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: re: re: Alternative callable editors in MAIL?
- Message-ID: <9212301930.AA18889@uu3.psi.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:56:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- [I wrote:]
- Note that since MAIL is privileged, any callable editor that you
- intend to call from MAIL must be INSTALL'ed.
-
- [Carl Lydick responds:]
- The "since" there should be replaced by an "if." Under VMS v5.4-2,
- for example:
-
- $ SEARCH SYS$MANAGER:VMSIMAGES.DAT MAIL
- sys$system:mail_server /open /header /shared /priv=(sysprv)
- sys$system:mail /open /header /shared
- sys$share:mailshrp /open /header /shared /protect
- sys$share:mailshr /open /header /shared
-
- Since MAIL_SERVER and MAIL have been decoupled, MAIL is no longer, by
- default, a privileged image.
-
- Mr. Lydick is, of course, quite correct. However, it's worth noting that
- MAIL WILL be installed with privilege on many systems, since some common
- mail extension packages, DECUS UUCP perhaps most prominent among them, require
- it be so.
- -- Jerry
-