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From:	arnold@cc.gatech.edu (Arnold Robbins)
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In-Reply-To: rob@plan9.research.att.com's 15-line message on Dec  8, 11:48am
X-Ultrix: Just Say NO!
X-Important-Saying: Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil.
X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92)
To:	sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: sam and varios mail programs

> (various?)

*I* can spell. My keyboard can't, though. ☺

> why not change your EDITOR variable to be a script
> that uses B to get the file into sam,

This is the easy part.

> and some other
> signal or watchdog to get it back?

This is the hard part.  It happens that if I do something like this
with mush, and simply wait until I've finished with the editor, I'm ok,
but it's pretty fragile.  That's why I was wondering if someone else had
beat me to inventing this wheel.