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From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii
Subject: Re: Need help /w .sig pleeze!
Date: 19 Sep 1994 10:26:19 -0500
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Beau Gunderson <beaug@chinook.halcyon.com> wrote:
>Hi, this is Beau Gunderson, needing help with a .sig file. How in the 
>world do i USE it after i make it?!?!?!?!? I need to know, and also, if 
>someone would be nice enough to help me, just email me at 
>beaug@halcyon.com. PLEEZE. Would like wolf and penguin art too....


  If you're going to have your sig automatically included in your posts and
email, remember that some systems only allow up to 4 lines in the sig.

  If you want to use a larger sig on systems that only allow 4 lines, you
will have to insert it manually.  On most Unix based systems, this is as eany
as pressing Control-R and typing the names (or full pathname) of the file to
be inserted.


  To have your sig added automatically, on most Unix based systems:

  For posts:

  Name the file you want to be used as ".signature" and put it in the top
level of your home folder.  Your news software should pick it up.  Note: some
systems are set up to allow only four lines in a posted sig.

  For email:

  Name the file you want to be used as ".signature" and put it in the top
level of your home folder.  If you have done this for the above use in news
posts, you need to, in additon, do one of the following:

o If you're using Elm for your email, and elm doesn't pick up your sig, you
  need to put the following in ypur elmrc:

  localsignature = ~/.signature
  remotesignature = ~/.signature

  If you don't have an elmrc yet, go into Elm, press the 'o' key to get to
  the options screen.  Press the '>' to save your configuration.  Press 'i'
  to go back to the index, and quit.  This will create the elmrc file in the
  .elm folder.

o If you're using Pine (with Pico) for your email, place the following in
  your .pinerc file:

  signature-file=~/.signature

o If you're using vm (in emacs) for your email, place the following in your
  .emacs file:

  (setq mail-signature t)

  Note about sig usage: Try to use short sigs for posts to newsgroups.  If
you have any long sigs, try to only use them for email and posts to the ASCII
art groups.


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