Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!sdcrdcf!trwrb!ries From: ries@trwrb.UUCP (Marc Ries) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: 'from' conflict with UCB Message-ID: <7042@trwrb.UUCP> Date: 7 Jul 88 16:26:24 GMT References: <1596@bu-tyng.bu.edu> <6138@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <561@altnet.ALTOS.COM> Reply-To: ries@trwrb.dsd.trw.com.UUCP (Marc Ries) Organization: TRW Operations and Support Group Lines: 21 In article <561@altnet.ALTOS.COM> edc@altnet.UUCP (Eric Christensen) writes: >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 [...] [ [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. [ I once heard about a wonderful new software product called PATH. It seems that if you put the elm "from" before the ucb "from" in this PATH, things work just fine ;-) -- Marc A. ries@trwrb.TRW.COM sdcrdcf!---\ ihnp4!------\----- trwrb! --- ries