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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!usenet From: bogusckintz@noucealoha.com (Chris Kintz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.shell Subject: Problems with "Piping" Mail Input Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:38:50 GMT Organization: Just Me, Myself, And I Lines: 37 Message-ID: <336a6c8f.27955581@news.alt.net> Reply-To: bogusckintz@noucealoha.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.0/32.390 X-No-Archive: yes Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6701 comp.unix.misc:28863 comp.unix.shell:44061 I don't know much about Unix, so I figure I would go to those who are Unix Gods for help... I'm trying to pipe all of my incoming mail into my mail filter, which is named "nags_filter.pl". It's located in my /user/ckintz/filter.pl directory. Now, my question is this... how do I make a .forward file to pipe all of my mail to the filter to get processed? Since I have to use perl5, I've been trying "|/user/ckintz/filter.pl/perl5 nags_filter.pl" (Using the "|" key, basically the "Shift-\" that is above the ENTER key on the PC keyboard). Using edit/pico doesn't seem to work, as it'll either send the mail off into oblivion, or create a file called "perl5.nags_filter.pl" in the filter.pl subdirectory and put all the mail in there. I tried to create a file using "cat >.forward" and then typing (Control-D) to get a "pipe" symbol, but it seems to cancel it. Using "|/user/ckintz/filter.pl/perl5 nags_filter.pl" with "cat >.forward" caused the effects I describe above. Help! Log on into the shell indicates that the version of Unix installed is: BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 Kernel #0: Tue Feb 25 15:16:04 HST 1997 Thanks. - Chris (UIN 726529) ("Xoxotl" in online games) --- "Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting." --John Russell --- E m a i l - c k i n t z - @at@ - a l o h a - .dot. - c o m /// I h a t e s p a m !