?RCS: $Id: mailfile.U 1 2006-08-24 12:32:52Z rmanfredi $ ?RCS: ?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi ?RCS: ?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence, ?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution. ?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of ?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root ?RCS: of the source tree for dist 4.0. ?RCS: ?RCS: $Log: mailfile.U,v $ ?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.2 1994/10/29 16:24:57 ram ?RCS: patch36: the Loc unit was missing from the dependency line ?RCS: ?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1993/12/15 08:22:08 ram ?RCS: patch15: now also looks under /var/mail for BSD/386 ?RCS: ?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:09:11 ram ?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release. ?RCS: ?MAKE:mailfile: Myread Oldconfig Filexp Loc ?MAKE: -pick add $@ %< ?S:mailfile: ?S: This variable contains the eventual value of the MAILFILE symbol, ?S: which contains an interpretable name of the mail spool file for the ?S: current user. ?S:. ?C:MAILFILE: ?C: This symbol contains the interpretable name of the mail spool file ?C: for the current user. The program must be prepared to substitute ?C: the HOME directory for %~, and the login id for %L. ?C:. ?H:#define MAILFILE "$mailfile" /**/ ?H:. : determine where mail is spooled case "$mailfile" in '') dflt=`./loc . XXX /usr/spool/mail /usr/mail /var/mail` case "$dflt" in XXX) dflt='%~/mailbox';; *) dflt="$dflt/%L";; esac ;; *) dflt="$mailfile" ;; esac cat <<'EOM' In the following question, you may use %~ to represent the user's home directory, and %L to represent a users name. EOM rp='In which file is yet-to-be-read mail spooled? (~name ok)' . ./myread mailfile=`./filexp "$ans"`