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- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!bu.edu!Shiva.COM!rjm
- From: rjm@Shiva.COM (Rich McMahon)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: mail question
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.200136.25945@Shiva.COM>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 20:01:36 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Shiva Corporation, Cambridge Ma, USA
- Lines: 31
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- I mistakenly typed a "d\" at the mail prompt. Did this do what I think
- it did, namely delete all the mail messages in mbox except for the current
- one?
-
- Shiva.COM% mail -f
- Mail version SMI 4.0 Wed Feb 7 23:50:57 PST 1990 Type ? for help.
-
- & d\
- \
- /
- & more
- Message 145:
- Message-Id: <9209110602.AA17916@Shiva.COM>
- & more 20
- 20: Inappropriate message
- & more 22
- 22: Inappropriate message
- & more 23
- 23: Inappropriate message
- & more 24
- 24: Inappropriate message
- & q
- "/s/usr1/users/support/rjm/mbox" complete
- Shiva.COM% mail -f
- Mail version SMI 4.0 Wed Feb 7 23:50:57 PST 1990 Type ? for help.
- "/s/usr1/users/support/rjm/mbox": 1 message
- > 1 phil Fri Sep 11 02:58 35/1424
- & z
- On last screenful of messages
- & q
-