andrew@dgbt.uucp (Andrew Patrick DGBT/DBR) (05/17/90)
In article <1154@leuze-owen.de> fbraab@leuze-owen.de (Fritz B. Raab) writes: >Does someone know a patch or workaround for the following problem: >We want each user running the PC-NFS Lifeline Mail program at least >once a day, therefore we want to include the command mail into >AUTOEXEC.BAT. Unfortunately someone wrote the program in a way that >one can't do that. One must either press 'M' or 'C' for monochrome >or colour screen (!). The way I got around this problem when I was still using Lifeline Mail (I now use the PC-Mail program recently posted to comp.sources.misc) was to use a utility to place the "m" or "c" keypress into the keyboard buffer, and then issue the mail command. PCED can do this nicely with its "keyin" utility -- keyin m^mail. I believe there is a PD utility called "keyfake" that may be able to do the same thing for you. e.g., in the autoexec.bat file keyfake m mail -- Andrew Patrick, Ph.D. | Old Address: andrew@dgbt.crc.dnd.CA andrew@dgbt.doc.CA | Alternate Address: andrew@doccrc.BITNET Department of Communications | Slow Address: andrew@dgbt.UUCP Ottawa, CANADA |