-=> IAN HOARE wrote to ED VANCE <=-

 EV> In my MMAIL.RC I call the old DOS EDIT program.

 EV> editor: edit

 IH> Which according to their documentation, is superflous, as Edit is the
 IH> default editor. ;-)

It's the default in the DOS ports of MultiMail, and it _used_ to be the 
default in the Windows port. Since version 0.38, notepad is the default for 
Windows.

 IH> Well, as you'll have seen Stephen Haffly pointed me in the right
 IH> direction. Keep the length of folder names <8 chars.

BTW, MultiMail (except for the XT version) has no such limitation. But if 
you're using it with a DOS archiver (like old PKZIP) or editor, then a 
longer name in MultiMail's config could be a problem for _that_ program. 
(One reason I've finally bundled native InfoZip with the Windows version.)

In your case, if I'm reading this thread correctly, you'd already moved the 
editor call to a batch file before you tried quoting the name with spaces 
or using the "short form". Editing the name in the batch file does not 
reflect what MultiMail will do when calling the editor directly.

... Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.
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