this seems kinda silly, but i'm stumped....  say i want to
write a command file to process the contents of some flat
(not message!) file.  the ci syntax would/should simply be
":mycmd < myfile".  the problem is (to me) how to do the
looping inside of 'mycmd'.  i can say:

setvar _filename input()
echo !_filename

but that only gets me the first record in 'myfile'.  i've
looked (some) at denkor's site.  i've looked at the command
files i have.  what i'm consistently seeing is the looping
is being controlled by some mechanism tied to the eof of the
redirected file.  is that the only way to do
it?                  - d

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