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- From: schwim@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Rosebud)
- Subject: Re: Problem with filter and savename option (ELM 2.4pl20, Ultrix v4.2r96)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.113711.25261@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: The Land of Chocolate
- References: <1993Jan19.025850.11344@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:37:11 GMT
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- bushnell@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (William D. Bushnell) ponders:
- >if (from contains "joe" and from contains "blow) then
- > savecopy "~/Mail/joe_blow"
- >The problem is that filter places incoming mail from "joe_blow" into the file
- >(folder) called "~/Mail/joe blow" (space included). Unix doesn't like spaces
- >in filenames, and working with this file is a pain in the you-know-what. Why
- >does elm convert the underscore to a space? Mail I send to joe_blow is put in
- >the file (folder) "joe_blow". I'd like to have both incoming and outgoing
- >mail put into the same file "joe_blow" or some other user-specified file,
- >perhaps named after an alias as defined in the aliases.text file.
- >Is there anything I can do?
- >bushnell@lmsc.lockheed.com (Bill Bushnell)
-
- This is a kludge, but a symbolic link should "solve" your problem:
-
- ln -s joe_blow joe\ blow
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- Yours,
- Larry Schwimmer
- schwim@xenon.stanford.edu
-