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Grex Info Item 242: HELP w/ signature file
Entered by salizar on Mon May 8 05:26:53 UTC 1995:

I was wondering if anyone knows how to setup a signature file through 
elm?  I have tryed to pute a .signature file in the main dir and also in 
.elm however nothing seems to be working.

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks-
-=Michael=-

3 responses total.

#1 of 3 by davel on Mon May 8 10:53:14 1995:

Edit your .elm/elmrc file.  (I think you should have such a file, but if
you don't, go into elm, get to the options screen, & do a save.  Then you
will.)

In .elm/elmrc, there are lines setting a remote signature and a local
signature (with comments preceding them).  These lines are initially set
pointing to nothing and commented out with "#" characters at the beginning
of the lines.

Try changing them to say:
  localsignature = $HOME/.elm/.signature
or
  remotesignature = $HOME/.elm/.signature
(since you've put the .signature you want in your .elm dir).

You can set these to point to any filenames you want (for which you have
read access), giving a full path.  The file you give for the localsignature
will be appended to messages you send that elm thinks are here; the
remotesignature to messages elm thinks are going elsewhere.  This may not
always reflect reality; some users here on Grex routinely get my remote .sig.
(You may, of course, use the same file for both.)

#2 of 3 by salizar on Fri May 12 05:30:36 1995:

Thanks, I'll see if that works...  I don't have a .signature option in my 
options.

#3 of 3 by davel on Fri May 12 11:12:57 1995:

That's right - the options screen has a very, very, very limited selection
of the options actually stored in the elmrc configuration file.  Elm has
***lots*** of options you can set up, some of which can produce unintended
side effects.

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