Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!bbn.com!mesard From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: MH drawbacks for computer-unexperienced users Message-ID: <24338@bbn.COM> Date: 9 May 88 15:31:45 GMT References: <7709@ncoast.UUCP> Sender: news@bbn.COM Lines: 49 From article <7709@ncoast.UUCP>, by allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery): > As quoted from <23864@bbn.COM> by mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard): > +--------------- > | From article <336@draken.nada.kth.se>, by psv@nada.kth.se (Peter Svanberg): > | > * There is no way to include a file in a letter without the use of > | > an editor. > | > | "forw -file" works for me. > +--------------- > > "forw" in MH 6.5 #45[UCI] of Tue Jul 8 11:38:00 PDT 1986 doesn't grok a > "-file" argument. Or at least, so it tells me in "forw -help".... Indeed you are right. "forw -help" tells me the same thing. It's not in the man page either. Nonetheless, "forw -file " does work. There's an old wives tale that says it's aerodynamically impossible for bees to fly. What they don't know...eh? forw -help syntax: forw [+folder] [msgs] [switches] switches are: -[no]annotate -draftfolder +folder -draftmessage msg -nodraftfolder -editor editor -noedit -filter filterfile -form formfile -([no]forma)t -[no]inplace -digest list -issue number -volume number -whatnowproc program -nowhatnowproc -(help) version: MH 6.5 #63[UCI] (lf-server-2) of Thu Dec 10 12:17:18 EST 1987 options: [BSD42] [TTYD] [DUMB] [SUN] [OVERHEAD] [MHRC] [MHE] [MMDFMTS] [MMDFII] -- unsigned *Wayne_Mesard(); MESARD@BBN.COM BBN Labs, Cambridge, MA "Who needs clover leaves when we've got rotories? Who needs rotories when we've got cyanide?"