Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!pacbell!gladys!bakerst!ihtlt!kosman!kevin 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 Lines: 32 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.