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From: edc@ALTOS.COM (Eric Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: 'from' conflict with UCB
Message-ID: <561@altnet.ALTOS.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 88 16:58:29 GMT
References: <1596@bu-tyng.bu.edu> <6138@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: edc@altnet.UUCP (Eric Christensen)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA.
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In article <6138@uwmcsd1.UUCP> dave@csd1.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes:
>From article <1596@bu-tyng.bu.edu>, by oneill@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Brian O'Neill):
>> I just realized that there is a program '/usr/ucb/from' already on most BSD
>> system, and it conflicts with Elm's 'from'. They have the same basic
>> purpose, but different output (I like Elm's). However, I did not want to
>> just remove /usr/ucb/from, in case anyone needs it, but having two 'from'
>> commands just leads into trouble. Perhaps a name change is in order to
>> prevent this conflict??
>
>I call the elm version 'frm' for whatever that's worth.

Agreed! As much as I hate to change it, that's a good idea. Unless someone has 
a reasonable bitch, from(1) will become frm(1) in the 2.0 release.

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