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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
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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 ;-)

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		Marc A. ries@trwrb.TRW.COM

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