Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 15:48:56 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: ashworth@cs.montana.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Executable signature? Message-ID: <199706082048.PAA00393@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <3399B0E9.DD16F91A@spacehog.structured.net> from Justin Ashworth at "Jun 7, 97 07:05:13 pm"
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In a previous message, Justin Ashworth said:
> Is it possible to create an executable signature? I'd like to tag a quip
> from /usr/games/fortune onto my signature after my name. I've tried
> writing a .signature with a shebang (#!) line in PERL and sh to no
> avail. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
I do that. Well, not exactly. What you want is a named pipe.
They're pretty easy to use. You'll have a daemon running in
the background, writting to the pipe (.signature) and your
mail program reads from it as normal.
--
The sun was shining on the sea, He did his very best to make
Shining with all his might: The billows smooth and bright--
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night --Lewis Carroll
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