Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!apple!vsi1!wyse!bob From: bob@wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen Wyse Technology Training) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Xenix - elm problem Message-ID: <2360@wyse.wyse.com> Date: 14 Aug 89 23:31:03 GMT References: <220@althea.UUCP> <24E70682.2226@ateng.com> Sender: news@wyse.wyse.com Reply-To: bob@wyse.UUCP (Bob McGowen Wyse Technology Training) Organization: Wyse Technology Lines: 29 In article <24E70682.2226@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >[Followups to comp.unix.xenix.] > >According to eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi): >>Apparently Xenix rmail can only handle one name at a time, and elm is Absolutely!! >>sending multiple names? Is there anything I can do to cure this? > >Yes. Install Smail 2.5 with my Xenix patches. Smail 2.5 is in the ---deleted--- I also had problems with rmail and multiple command line args. Needing a quick fix I built the following script, which solves the immediate problems without having to get any sources, compiling and possibly debugging, etc... :-) for name do xrmail $name done The name of the script is rmail and the original XENIX rmail is renamed to xrmail. The script will loop through all names on its command line invoking the XENIX rmail on each one in turn. Bob McGowan (standard disclaimer, these are my own ...) Customer Education, Wyse Technology, San Jose, CA ..!uunet!wyse!bob bob@wyse.com