Aihuxg.114 net.unix utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!ihuxg!grg Sat Sep 12 21:21:12 1981 Mail updates.. I have made several more updates to the Mail program:: 1) The pipe option is now: pipe [cmd[&]] | [cmd[&]] The & is as in the shell, background the receiving command. if cmd is not specified, the variable cmd value is used. (Thus one can set cmd="pr.cmd" in .mailrc) 2) A new option "page" specifies that a form-feed should follow each message piped to any "cmd". 3) A new option "allnet" is added. It specifies that user names are unique for all network addresses, thus allowing deletion of the users name even if preceeded by site names. This fixes a bug where you would reply, and send a copy to yourself because your name was not properly recognized. 4) The limit of network name lengths was increased (from 20) to 30 characters. 5) A bug in the "~/mbox" default in s[ave] command was fixed. Previously a message list default was not allowed, sorry... One remaining improvement should recognize the local `uname` and optimize it out of the network paths, any interest?? Any feedback or comments welcomed. Greg ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.