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From: lau@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: /usr/ucb/Mail bug remains under SR10
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Date: 18 Aug 89 18:42:11 GMT
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In article <1417@nosc.NOSC.MIL> dennis@peanuts.nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel) writes:
>Out of curiosity, I sat down this morning and executed /usr/ucb/Mail on
>our experimental SR10.1 node.  I was dismayed to find that when you use
>the ~h excape to modify the header fields, the previous contents of the
>fields are discarded.  This bug has been on the known bug list at
[mild flame delete]
>
>	Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
>	(619) 553-1645      dennis@nosc.MIL      sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis

Actually, I've never used the ~h command.  Do you use it when you send
a message?  I wouldn't call myself a Unix expert but when I tried this,
it did show my previous values.  Am I missing something?

Yan.
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