Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!fed!m1edb00 From: m1edb00@fed.FRB.GOV (Eric D. Boutilier) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Using 'repl' in background Message-ID: <275@fed.FRB.GOV> Date: 23 Sep 88 02:48:07 GMT References: <4052@bsu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: m1edb00@fed.UUCP (Eric D. Boutilier) Organization: Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC Lines: 19 In article <4052@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >I would like to be able to say something like > > repl < msgfile How about the following: repl -noedit -nowhatnowproc ; cat msgfile >> $HOME/Mail/draft; send' Put this in an alias or shell script and you're all set. Caution: You might want to build in some safe-guard to verify that you're responding to the right message. While testing this, I had the wrong current message and sent my test msgfile to someone by accident instead of myself. -- Eric Boutilier UUCP: uunet!fed!m1edb00 (202) 452-2734