Re: Program suggestion

Mel Wilson (mwilson@interlog.com)
Thu, 18 Jul 1996 07:52:36 -0400

In article <Pine.NEB.3.92.960717222000.26380D-100000@zot.io.org>,
Otto Lang <mst1@io.org> wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Juanita Fischer wrote:
>> 2. Postpone a message I've begun instead of having to save it to a file
>> and retrieve it later.

What I've been doing here is to review all my replies (shift-R)
before I leave YARN. If I'm not satisfied with one, I delete it and
re-post it later from my POSTED or MAILED folder, after I've worked on
it some more. If I did this much, I might set up a special folder
(PENDING? REWORK? 00REWORK?) for these things.

>> I wouldn't mind having to use the utilities so much if they
>> could even just be accessed from a menu interface, instead of
>> having to invoke each one separately, having to remember all those parameters.

>You don't, why not write some batch file menu, after all it's
>a DOS environment. [ ... ]
>I tried editor=C:\PC_WRITE\ed %f /e
>I got an error message from my editor that the filename is too long.
>I fixed it by dropping the %f /e, but now my ED program never
>goes directly into the file. You see, the PC_WRITE editor has

.BAT files work well for me.
>From CONFIG:

editor=command.com /c kedyarn

C:\BAT\KEDYARN.BAT (since kedit params are even wierder than
ed's):

kedit %1 (WIDTH 1000

Another .bat I use, since the night I typed "expirex -r" by mistake:
YEXPIRE.BAT

set YARN=d:\yarn
set HOME=d:\mwilson
d:\yarn\expirex.exe -o

Regards. Mel.