Changeset aa1bbf6 for doc/intro.txt

Timestamp:

Dec 31, 2004, 7:30:45 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

James M. Kretchmar <kretch@mit.edu>

Branches:

master, barnowl_perlaim, debian, owl, release-1.10, release-1.4, release-1.5, release-1.6, release-1.7, release-1.8, release-1.9

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• doc/intro.txt (modified) (2 diffs)

doc/intro.txt

@@ -330 +330 @@
 *** WARNING: This interface may change substantially in the near future ***
 
-This file is interpreted by the perl interpreter.
-If you wish to execute an owl command use the
-function owl::command().  i.e.
-
-     owl::command("set zsigproc \"/mit/kretch/bin/getzsig foo\"");
-
-will set the owl variable zsigproc.  
+The ~/.owlconf file is interpreted by the perl interpreter.  You may
+specify an alternate file by running owl with "owl -c <configfile>".
+
+If you wish to execute an owl command from .owlconf use the function
+owl::command().  i.e.:
+
+     owl::command('set zsigproc "/mit/kretch/bin/getzsig foo"');
 
 Subroutines created with the names below will be executed at the
@@ -351 +351 @@
                        it has been added to the message list
 
-Both owl::format_msg and owl::receive_msg are passed
-perl owl::Message objects which contain attributes of the message.
-Please see the advanced.txt file for further documentation
-of the Perl extension API.
-
-The "appendtosepbar" variable may be set in owl::format_msg()
-to set text to be appended to sepbar that separates the received
-message list from the edit window.
+Both owl::format_msg and owl::receive_msg are passed perl owl::Message
+objects which contain attributes of the message.  Please see the
+advanced.txt file for further documentation of the Perl extension API.
+
+The "appendtosepbar" variable may be set in owl::format_msg() to set
+text to be appended to sepbar that separates the received message list
+from the edit window.