17 Dec 97 11:27, Jack Raats wrote to andrew clarke:

 I don't know the answer to your first question, but I can
 give you a tip on how to use a spell checker, and any other
 utilities you want to, with MsgEd.

 > BTW. Is it possible to use a spell controler togeter with Msged and
 > how?

 Here's how I do it...

  In the msged.cfg there is a verb caller `editor'.  On the line
  after the word editor I call a batch file...


 editor   G:\BINKLEY\MSGED\EDITMSG.BAT

  The batch file looks like this...

 {at}ECHO OFF
 D:\EDITORS\QEDIT\Q.EXE MSGED.TMP
 CALL SS MSGED.TMP
 CALL ADDTAG

  Here's the line by line play action...
                                                    
  Line 1 disables echoing of the batch commands to the screen.
  Line 2 executes the external editor qedit to edit the message.

  The next two lines use a DOS verb, CALL, to execute batch
  files. It is important to understand when and why to use CALL.
  When a batch file is executed from within another batch file
  it will execute and when it is done it will stop and the
  original batch file that executed it will end too.  Even if
  there are other lines in it, they will not be executed.
  If the CALL verb is used to execute a batch file from within
  another batch file, when the inner batch file ends the batch
  file that started it will continue its execution on the next
  line.
       
  Line 3 calls SS.BAT which starts Share Spell to check the message.
  Last of all Line 4 calls a tagline utility to insert a tagline.

  Now after typing all of this I realize that this method will
  not help if you use the internal editor.  If that is the case,
  I think MsgEd probably allows a program to be executed after
  the message editor.   Hmmm... I just searched the docs and I
  didn't find any feature like that.  If there isn't one, it
  would be a good item for the wish list.  If there is a way to
  run a program after editing you can use a batch file like
  the one I use, only you won't be calling an editor.

 I hope this is of some help to you or someone else here who may
 have been wondering how to run external utilities.

 Roger
 
... Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a tagline writer.

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