info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (01/04/85)
From: Marshall Abrams <abrams@mitre> After uncountable years using msg and sndmsg on UNIX and similar products on TENEX, I am about to be switched to mail on ULTRIX. On first glance, I am traumatized!! In particular, I note a lack of forward and redirect commands, both of which I use frequently. Any advice or suggestion would be appreciated. Since I'm not a member of these lists, please reply directly. Thanks, Marshall Abrams
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (01/05/85)
From: rad@Mitre-Bedford >After uncountable years using msg and sndmsg on UNIX and similar products >on TENEX, I am about to be switched to mail on ULTRIX. On first glance, I >am traumatized!! In particular, I note a lack of forward and redirect >commands, both of which I use frequently. Don't blame Ultrix, or even bsd4.2 on which it is based. The programs that you're used to using may be part of the Rand MH package. On the 4.2 distro tape, MH is part of the contributed software (/usr/src/contrib ?). Have your system programmers install MH, and you should be happy. Dick Dramstad rad@mitre-bedford
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (01/05/85)
From: medin@ucbarpa (Milo Medin) I don't know about ULTRIX, but 4.2 BSD (from which ULTRIX is supposed to be derived, in fact its binary compatible with 4.2) has all that and more, and several mail utilities have been written for it. I am surprised that DEC wouldn't put it in their distribution. Milo
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (01/05/85)
From: Mike O'Brien <obrien@CSNET-SH.ARPA> A general word of warning: the version of MH on the 4.2 distribution, and therefore (presumably) the one included with ULTRIX, is very old and very buggy. I strongly suggest getting the version of MH known as MH.5, which is now being put together by Marshall Rose, late of U. C. Irvine and now of U. of Delaware.