envbvs@epb6.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) (05/08/89)
Is it too much to ask that when a new news group is started that it is described in detail so that others might possibly learn something new? The welcoming message to mush didn't say anything about its meaning. I.e. what is mush? _____________________________________ Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory We don't need no signatures!
dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller) (05/09/89)
In article <2573@helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb6 (Brian V. Smith) writes: >Is it too much to ask that when a new news group is started that it >is described in detail so that others might possibly learn something new? > >The welcoming message to mush didn't say anything about its meaning. > >I.e. what is mush? > I won't go into too much detail -- or maybe even a little detail -- because anything would suddenly expand into a huge discussion of what mush can do. but what it is in concept is a Mail Agent similar to what you get when you type "Mail" or "mail" on any unix machine. If you read mail using either of these programs, then you already know how to use mush. but mush has an extended command set which goes far beyond what Mail is capable doing. In addition, mush has three user interfaces -- the normal tyt interface you are familiar with by using Mail, or csh; the curses interface which is configurable to mimic vi or emacs (that is, you can bind key sequences to commands) and a suntools interface which allows you to run mush on a sun workstation using sunwindows (predecessor to sunview). Currently, there is no X version available and there isn't likely to be one without funding (nudge nudge wink wink) because I simply don't have the time. If you desire more information than what I've given you here, please followup to this article and maybe more people can help me out in replying to such a general question. Dan Heller <island!argv@sun.com>