[comp.os.vms] Are permanent DEFINE/KEY in MAIL possible?

CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET ("Kevin Cole at Gallaudet U. Washington DC") (02/12/88)

Howdy all,

OK, now that I have EDT, EVE and DCL keys set to my favorite things, can
I do the same permanently in MAIL?  Is there some hidden symbol/logical/ini
file/whatever that would automatically do the DEFINE/KEY stuff every time?
It's not vitally important, but I can see where it might help if I'm going
through tons of INFO-VAX mail ;-)

And a related issue (almost enough to flame about):  Why doesn't the MAIL
SEARCH command locate consecutive occurrances of a string in order?  Seems that
locating the only first occurrance of a string EVERY time the command is issued
is almost useless.  Comments?  Workarounds?  News of future enhancements?

One last thing.  I thought I saw in a previous message some line like:

   $ DEFINE   MAIL$TPUSECINI   something or other

Does MAIL really understand that there's a seperate TPUINI file for it?
Or was I dreaming about having seen that message?

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