mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) (04/10/91)
In mail, on some Suns, I can forward a message to someone else by
doing this:
& | mail somebody@somewhere
On other Suns I get the message "No applicable messages from {mail}"
when I try to do this. What am I doing wrong?
--
-------------------------------------------------------
Michael A. Covington | Artificial Intelligence Programs
The University of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602 U.S.A.
-------------------------------------------------------subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) (04/16/91)
In article <1991Apr10.034817.27180@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes: >In mail, on some Suns, I can forward a message to someone else by >doing this: > >& | mail somebody@somewhere > >On other Suns I get the message "No applicable messages from {mail}" >when I try to do this. What am I doing wrong? You have to quote the argument to |. Do this: & | 'mail somebody@somewhere' Works like a charm. -Kartik -- internet# rm `df | tail +2 | awk '{ printf "%s/quotas\n",$6}'` subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU -| Internet kartik@silvertone.Princeton.EDU (NeXT mail) SUBBARAO@PUCC.BITNET - Bitnet