henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (07/28/83)
A number of improvements have been made to mail(1), bringing it roughly
into step with a private version that has been in use for some time.
Positioning commands have been improved: `-3' or `---' goes back three
messages, `11' gives you message #11, `$' gives you the last message,
and `=' gives you the number of the current message, how many messages
there are in total, and an indication if the current message has been
deleted.
The `s', `w', and `m' commands no longer have an implicit "delete and
go on to the next message" built in. The `y' and `n' commands, which
are the ones we advertise to new users, are unchanged. The `d' command
no longer causes an implicit `q' when typed in response to the last
message.
The `?' command has been improved to show just the naive-user commands,
with `??' giving the advanced ones.
The `u' command, which undeletes something deleted with `d', is new.
My private "nmail", which several people use, lacks `u' and `w' (the
former was a more recent idea, the latter was deleted for reasons that
no longer seem as good as they did then). The new mail(1) lacks the
`f' command of my private one; this capability *will* reappear soon,
but probably in a slightly different form. My "nmail" is about to go
away, since mail(1) now has all the important stuff.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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