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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: mailx for 3b1 ver 3.0
Message-ID: <420@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 88 16:13:44 GMT
References: <739@naucse.UUCP> <2920@druco.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Root)
Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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In article <2920@druco.ATT.COM> spear@druco.ATT.COM (Steve Spearman) writes:
>in article <739@naucse.UUCP>, sbw@naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) says:
>> Xref: druco comp.sys.att:3489 unix-pc.general:190
>> 
>> From article <4505@killer.UUCP>, by sean@killer.UUCP (Sean McCollister):
>>> In article <916@flatline.UUCP>, erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
>>> As far as I know, mailx for unix-pc is available only to AT&T employees.
>> Ok, I'll believe that.  Now, what can us po' folk do to try and get that
>> changed?  Is there anyone we should write in such an attempt...
>
> [takes AT&T to task for bad communication]
>
>Steve Spearman	(att, ihtlt, ihnp4)!booboo!spear
>Definitely not speaking for AT&T

Hmmmmm.  I came to this discussion a bit late, because I have tried and
rejected use of mailx in favor of first Elm, and now Mush.  So my interest
is marginal.

However, I am in the midst of reorganizing all the two hundred or so floppies
and file folders I have around my office containing the various projects I
have worked on (fiddled with?) over the years I have had a UNIX PC.  One is
interesting here: dated around February 1987, it comes from Emmet P. Gray,
and claims to be a Berkeley Mail, or AT&T mailx clone.  It is called Mail.
It includes source code.  It has a UNIX PC makefile.  It does not have a
man page or other separate documentation, other than a short note from
Emmet.

Is anyone familiar with this thing?  Can anyone report how accurate the
claim to be a mailx clone is?  Does this thing work?  How much interest is
there for a repost?

Emmet, are you listening?  I'm just a packrat here: you're the originator.