Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!indri!caesar!blake!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!quark!jeff From: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Query for the Most Simple MUA Message-ID: <3924@orca.WV.TEK.COM> Date: 18 Jul 89 02:42:22 GMT References: <2770@blake.acs.washington.edu> <30034@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <5008@ficc.uu.net> <833@dtscp1.UUCP> Sender: nobody@orca.WV.TEK.COM Reply-To: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR Lines: 18 Followup-To: In article <833@dtscp1.UUCP> scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes: >Sorry Peter, real men use: > cat /usr/spool/mail/$USER >then when finished: > > /usr/spool/mail/$USER Gee, I always used ":>! /usr/spool/mail/$USER" Yes, it really is a command for csh. (csh is a different story altogether :-) If you don't know what it does, send email. -Jeff -- Jeff Beadles Utek Sustaining Engineering, Tektronix Inc. jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (or) uunet!tektronix!quark.wv!jeff