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From: dave@csd1.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen)
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Subject: Re: 'from' conflict with UCB
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Date: 3 Jul 88 19:41:06 GMT
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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.

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