Talk: Signature probs

Rudrik Greyshadow  <gre...@uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
>In article <35s74f$24...@gagme.wwa.com> Bob Allison, bob...@wwa.com writes:
>>    Some systems have a 4 line limit.  In that case you need to insert
>the 
>> sig yourself.  On most unix based systems, you press the control-R keys 
>> at the same time.  It prompts you for a file.  You type a file name or 
>> full path name, and it inserts that file.  That's what I do, not
>because 
>> my system limits the sig size, but because I like to pick the sig from
>a 
>> number of them.
>
>Bob,
>   Shame on you... what are you trying to do to us.... On most unix based
>systems control-R does pretty much nothing!!!!!
>
>To read in a file in vi, ex, ed the command is ":r <filename>"
>on emacs it is control-x control-r <filename>
>
>all other editors you're on your own.


   I forgot to mention that this applies to the pico editor.  I don't 
mention how to do it in emacs or vi because users of those editor 
probably don't need my help.

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In article <35srtp$12e...@tequesta.gate.net>, Alaska <ala...@gate.net> wrote:
>Neil P. Montoya (nmo...@nmsu.edu) wrote:
>
>: i hope someone can help me, but when i post a message on the newsgroups
>: only 4 lines of my sig file are posted. can anyone tell me why?
>: i would like to have more lines posted. PLEASE help
>: any responses are greatly apprieciated
>: thanks
>
>
>No prob.  this is probably somewhere in the faq, but what the hell.  The 
>only way that I know of to get above 4 lines, is to use TIN.  If you use 
>tin, you can make a directory (named whatever you want ot to, but be 
>sure to note it in your tinrc) and put your sig in there.

   Didn't know that.  I'll have to pop that in the FAQs.

>I don't know 
>about you, but I think .sigs longer thatn 4 lines are obnoxiously long 
>(right, Bob? ;)

   Coitenly. ^_^

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