getfilename(1) UNIX System V (Release 1) getfilename(1)
NAME
getfilename - Ask the user to name a file in a given format
SYNOPSIS
getfilename format-name file-name
DESCRIPTION
The getfilename program will ask the user for the name of a
file in the specified format, and will copy that file to the
file-name given as the second argument.
If this doesn't sound very useful by itself, you're right.
However, this turns out to be all you need in order to add
some useful functionality to mailcap-oriented programs such
as mailto(1). For example, the following line in a mailcap
file allows mailto to help the user include PostScript in
outgoing mail:
application/postscript ; lpr -Pipa %s ; description="Include
a Postscript File";compose="getfilename Postscript %s"
SEE ALSO
mailto(1), metamail(1)
BUGS
This is such a tiny program it might actually be bug-free,
but I wouldn't bet on it.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1991 Bell Communications Research, Inc.
(Bellcore)
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AUTHOR
Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore
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