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From: MISH@VMS3.MACC.WISC.EDU (Tom Mish - MACC)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: question about edtini.edt in mail
Message-ID: <11949391979507001@vms3.macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 6 May 88 13:02:00 GMT
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Replying to Ron Kieffer, University of Calgary,
 
> I have defined edit as edit/edt/command=dev:[dir.dir1.]edtini.edt which
> works well when I call up edt from any working directory, but it seems
> not to carry through to mail/edt.
>
> Is there anything that can be done?
 
You should set the logical EDTSYS to point to the EDTINI.EDT file that
you want. This should solve all of your problems. See the DCL Dictionary
under EDIT/EDT for a full description of the search that takes places for
the EDT initialization file. In other word you REALLY SHOULD Read The Fancy
Manuals :-)
 
 
      $define edtsys disk$device:[directory.name]edtini.edt
 
This is almost exactly what I've got set up, and it works like a
charm (that's how this message is getting out!)
 
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