From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 14:26:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA24915 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 14:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jules.citizen1.com (grigsby@jules.citizen1.com [206.169.17.26]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA24892 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 14:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grigsby@localhost) by jules.citizen1.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA24203 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 14:27:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Grigsby Message-Id: <199608152127.OAA24203@jules.citizen1.com> Subject: Re: /usr/bin/[Mm]ail and including new To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 14:27:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199608151955.MAA23041@jules.citizen1.com> from Scott Grigsby at "Aug 15, 96 12:55:44 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello again! Well, nevermind this question. Alex and I just wrote an include() function into the mail source code to do what I wanted. As I said, I think it's pretty standard in /usr/bin/mail, so I think I'll send it to those folks at FreeBSD for the next release. Scott I wrote and said... >From: Scott Grigsby >Message-Id: <199608151955.MAA23041@jules.citizen1.com> >Subject: /usr/bin/[Mm]ail and including new >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:55:44 -0700 (PDT) >Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org >Precedence: bulk > > >Hello all, > >I prefer to use the regular-ol' /usr/bin/[Mm]ail (instead of elm >or pine or Netscape or whatnot), but the version in FreeBSD >seems to be missing a vital command: include. In all the other >BSD-type unixes I've used, you can re-read your spool mail file >by typing "inc" at the prompt. But not with FreeBSD (which, otherwise, >is great.) Any suggestions? Am I missing something? I don't mind >compiling some other source code if you could point me to a version >of mail that makes use of the "include" command. > >Thanks very much! > >Scott