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- STELM: (c) J & K Lemmens, 1993 ; J. Berger, 1993
-
- ELM
-
- The tools in this package make it possible to receive and send mail to
- other users on the system or output from the system generated by cron
- or other tools. Behaviour is similar to the UNIX elm, although it
- lacks a lot of the features found in the UNIX version.
-
- Mail format is the standard UNIX format, so you can read mailfiles
- from a UNIX system without any modification.
-
- The program explains itself (I hope so anyway), so I don't think it is
- necessary to say much about the menu options.
-
- m : Mail to a user.
- f : Forward to another user. (Send a copy of the current mail)
- r : Reply to the user who has sent the current message.
- d : Mark the current message for deletion. Actually deletion only takes
- place when exiting elm or when forcing a resync, with the $ command.
-
- To install :
-
- - Create a directory /usr/mail .
- - Obtain a termcap file and put it in /etc .
- (if you don't have termcap elm will only work on vt52 terminals)
- - Put elm in your standard /bin/ directory .
-
-
- Editor :
-
- The standard editor is mg (Micro-Emacs). If you want to use another
- editor, you can use the -e option from the commandline.
-
- One thing : if you use an editor that doesn't use the standard ATARI
- argument passing mechanism (with a max. commandline of 127 chars), it
- won't work with elm.
-
- Mailfile:
-
- The mailfile is taken from the LOGNAME environment variable. Default
- is to search in /usr/mail for a file named ${LOGNAME}
-
- This can be overridden with the -f option : In this way you read an
- arbitrary mailfile.
-
- NEWMAIL : ( by Jeroen Berger)
-
- This tool puts itself in the background and polls every minute if there
- is any new mail for the user who invoked it. If this is the case, it prints
- a message like " You have new mail".
-
- It automatically stops itself if the program from which it was started exits.
- (i.e. the user logged out)
-
- Any remarks or suggestions about these programs can be send to:
- lemmens@dv.twi.tudelft.nl or berger@tudebg.et.tudelft.nl
-