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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:16:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
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Subject: misc/18286: mailx, which is part of Unix 98, does not exist
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>Number:         18286
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       mailx, which is part of Unix 98, does not exist
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          wish
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 28 17:20:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gerald Pfeifer
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE
>Organization:
Vienna University of Technology
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
mailx, which is part of Unix 98 (http://www.UNIX-systems.org/), does
not exist in FreeBSD 3.x, nor 4.x or 5.x, as far as I could see.

This is bad, as this renders writing portable scripts extremely hard.
Solaris, AIX, and DEC OSF do have this program, for example.
>How-To-Repeat:
`which mailx` on any vanilla FreeBSD installation.
>Fix:
There is a mailx entry in the ports tree that might be moved into the
base system, but I'm not sure whether that indeed is compliant with
the standard.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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