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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
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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
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(202) 452-2734