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?RCS: $Id: mailfile.U,v 3.0.1.2 1994/10/29 16:24:57 ram Exp $
?RCS:
?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1993, Raphael Manfredi
?RCS: 
?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence,
?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root
?RCS: of the source tree for dist 3.0.
?RCS:
?RCS: $Log: mailfile.U,v $
?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.2  1994/10/29  16:24:57  ram
?RCS: patch36: the Loc unit was missing from the dependency line
?RCS:
?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1  1993/12/15  08:22:08  ram
?RCS: patch15: now also looks under /var/mail for BSD/386
?RCS:
?RCS: Revision 3.0  1993/08/18  12:09:11  ram
?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
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?MAKE:mailfile: Myread Oldconfig Filexp Loc
?MAKE:	-pick add $@ %<
?S:mailfile:
?S:	This variable contains the eventual value of the MAILFILE symbol,
?S:	which contains an interpretable name of the mail spool file for the
?S:	current user.
?S:.
?C:MAILFILE:
?C:	This symbol contains the interpretable name of the mail spool file
?C:	for the current user.  The program must be prepared to substitute
?C:	the HOME directory for %~, and the login id for %L.
?C:.
?H:#define MAILFILE "$mailfile"		/**/
?H:.
: determine where mail is spooled
case "$mailfile" in
'')
	dflt=`./loc . XXX /usr/spool/mail /usr/mail /var/mail`
	case "$dflt" in
	XXX) dflt='%~/mailbox';;
	*) dflt="$dflt/%L";;
	esac
	;;
*)  dflt="$mailfile"
	;;
esac
cat <<'EOM'

In the following question, you may use %~ to represent the user's home
directory, and %L to represent a users name.

EOM
rp='In which file is yet-to-be-read mail spooled? (~name ok)'
. ./myread
mailfile=`./filexp "$ans"`