Re: configuration question

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4v8ifi$rdi@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
Tilghman Lesher <lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>Mark Wade (mwade@suffolk.lib.ny.us) wrote:
>: On 15 Aug 1996, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>
>: > Wade (mwade@newshost.li.net) wrote:
>
>:  : Is there some way I can configure tin to use my full name or am I
>:  : limited with this system and have to use what they give me?
>
>: > I went through this problem, too...
>
>: > In your .shrc or .cshrc file, add the following line near the top
>: > of the file:
>
>: > setenv NAME 'Mark Wade'
>: > setenv ORGANIZATION 'Platypus Systems'  # if you want to change your
>: > 					# organization in the header
>: >
>: > Either of the lines can also be typed from the command line, though
>: > it would get tedious to retype it each time...
>: >
>: > Tilghman
>
>
>: Tilghman,
>
>: Thanks, but the problem is the system uses a menu driven interface
>: so I have no access to a command line or to the shrc file.
>
>: I think I've worked around the problem by using pine to post to csa2.
>: I _can_ configure pine easily enough and while it's cludgy reading
>: with tin and posting with pine, it works.  At least the post with
>: the subject line 'resistance is futile' worked, hopefully this will
>: too.
>
>Mark:
>
>Mailto 'root' and ask them if you can have this changed.  It probably
>will require less than a minute of their time, unless they've configured
>an automatic system which doesn't allow for customization.
>
>And if their system won't allow it, you've probably gotten an account
>on a system which if it crashes, it'll be down for a long time.  Better
>start looking for a better system  :-).
>
>Tilghman
>

Just so that we're not totally in the dark here... has anyone suggested
trying the various "escape to shell" commands?  i.e. :!tcsh in vi?

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