From:	Martin Steuer <ms172554 AT mail DOT inf DOT tu-dresden DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Dos-Emacs and default shell
Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:54:41 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Which mailer?  I have a version of feedmail.el that supports Blat, a PD 
> command-line mailer for Windows.  If that's what you want, I can just 
> send you the code (which I'm using for quite some time).


Hey, I've just downloaded Blat. On the Blat Site I found also a link to 
getmail. Are you using getmail for incoming mail? So it would be optimal 
if you could send me the code!


> Note that in general it's not a good idea to invoke subprograms via the 
> shell, since COMMAND.COM has too many limitations (such as too short 
> command-line length limit) that will bite you further down the road.


So how do you invoke Blat? Can this be done directly? I think your 
feedmail.el will enlighten this...

Thanks, so far
Martin

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