hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson) (05/02/91)
Included in Ultrix 4.0 is a utility 'msgs' which I understand is similar in function to the SysV utility 'news'. Does anyone have documentation for this utility (e.g., online man page)? The path is /usr/ucb/msgs. Thanks! jdh
mogul@wrl.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul) (05/02/91)
In article <1991May1.212450.14442@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson) writes: >Included in Ultrix 4.0 is a utility 'msgs' which I understand is similar >in function to the SysV utility 'news'. Does anyone have documentation for >this utility (e.g., online man page)? This is an ancient program (the current sources are dated in 1983); the online manual page should be present in your Ultrix 4.0 system. The description (in the Ultrix 4.2 version of the manual page, anyway) reads: The msgs command is used to read system messages. These messages are sent by mailing to the login ``msgs'' and should be short pieces of information that are suitable to be read once by most users of the system. and so you probably would do better to use USENET news. -Jeff
dayhoff@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil (dayhoff@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil -- harv) (05/11/91)
In article <1991May1.212450.14442@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson) writes: > Included in Ultrix 4.0 is a utility 'msgs' which I understand is similar > in function to the SysV utility 'news'. Does anyone have documentation for > this utility (e.g., online man page)? > > The path is /usr/ucb/msgs. > > Thanks! > > jdh /usr/man/man1/msgs.1 should be there is you have loaded the ULXMAN400 set harv dayhoff@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil