Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 04:43:19 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailx anyone? Message-ID: <20180614044319.2f2bafa0@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <7b3cc5ce196fd216ccdd76fb340a2492@kathe.in> References: <70677739ac5a415c5004ea551a7458b0@kathe.in> <c458985f-ecc5-0c20-df8a-a106886d8df6@FreeBSD.org> <7b3cc5ce196fd216ccdd76fb340a2492@kathe.in>
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 23:13:13 +0530 Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > On 2018-06-13 09:37 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 13/06/2018 16:48, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > >> does anyone on this list still use mailx? > >> if not regularly, at-least intermittently? > > > > Given that mail(1) is part of the FreeBSD base system and is pretty > > much the same thing as mailx(1), then probably not that many will > > use mailx(1). mail(1) is something I do use intermittently. > > mailx is just a link to mail. :-) I've no idea about mail and mailx, but in general being implemented in the same executable doesn't imply the same behaviour. For example less and more are hard-linked, but the shared binary behaves differently according to how it's invoked.
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