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From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root)
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Subject: Re: .froward file manual
To: zgabor@code.hu (Gabor Zahemszky)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:37:35 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de
In-Reply-To: <199606071624.QAA04634@CoDe.CoDe.hu> from "Gabor Zahemszky" at Jun 7, 96 04:24:03 pm
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In a previous message, Gabor Zahemszky said:
> 
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > 1) Where is the description of the .forward file?
> > > (And a more simple question:
> > > 2) What's the exact format of it?)
> > 
> > Only one line with a complete email-address to forward the mails !
> 
> And what about the 1st question?
> (and what about forwarding to programs, like `vacation', etc?
> I need the manual!)

Hmm. There's no man page. Should be one.

Basically, you can send to multiple places by separating them with
commas. To send to vacation using a pipe:

\proot,"|vacation proot"

check out man vacation.

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