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mailx-5.5-kw 5/30/95
WHAT'S IN THIS PATCH
There are a bunch of little features, common in System V and SunOS
versions of mailx, that are missing from the NetBSD-based version
distributed with Linux. This patch attempts to fill in some of what's
missing.
Changes from debian mailx-5.5 include:
5/4/95:
-- interpret prompt variable
-- interpret ~a and ~A tilde escapes
-- updated tildehelp list
-- changed mail.rc to ignore nothing (just my personal preference)
-- accept From lines with times of the form hh:mm (formerly took only hh:mm:ss)
5/7/95:
-- Save (S) command saves to mailbox named after author
-- take startup commands from file named by environment variable MAILRC
5/30/95:
-- -H switch for header summary only
Still to be done:
-- pipe ~p output through PAGER (see type1 in cmd1.c for an example)
-- save (s) by default to MBOX (instead of "No file specified.")
-- ~q should save to dead.letter, ~x is not known
-- update man page
-- allnet and showto ("showto" shows recipient instead of sender if sender
is current user)
Possibly difficult:
-- interpret editheaders variable as in SunOS version
Bugs:
-- ~a,~A tilde escapes leave an extra trailing blank on each line
-- to conform to original style, I should really be using char *cp
instead of new variables sig and prompt to be looking up variables
-- -H switch implementation is kind of gross. grep for "hdronly" in
source files; much room for improvement!
HOW TO INSTALL
Apply Sal Valente's debian patch first, so:
tar xvfz mailx-5.5.tar.gz
cd mailx-5.5
zcat ../mailx-5.5.debian.diff.gz | patch -p1
zcat ../mailx-5.5-kw.diff.gz | patch -p1
make
Or you may wish to just uncompress the diff file and pick and choose
the changes that you like.
AUTHOR
Ken Whang <Kenneth.C.Whang-1@umn.edu>