Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!alfie From: alfie@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Nick Holloway) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Query for the Most Simple MUA Message-ID: <1937@diamond.warwick.ac.uk> Date: 19 Jul 89 16:03:08 GMT References: <2770@blake.acs.washington.edu> <30034@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <5008@ficc.uu.net> <833@dtscp1.UUCP> <3924@orca.WV.TEK.COM> Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk Reply-To: alfie@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Nick Holloway) Organization: Computer Science, Warwick University, UK Lines: 23 In article <3924@orca.WV.TEK.COM> jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) writes: > 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" ......................^^^^^ Jeff, I'm afraid that by using csh, you don't count as a `real man' as above, but have placed yourself firmly in the role of `quiche eater'. :-) :-) Pity the command didn't start with ":-)", rather than ":>!" Alfie PS: I am ashamed of even knowing what Jeff meant - I don't use csh. -- JANET : alfie@uk.ac.warwick.cs | `O O' | Nick Holloway BITNET/EARN : alfie%uk.ac.warwick.cs@ukacrl | // ^ \\ | Comp Sci Dept INTERNET : alfie%cs.warwick.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | Uni of Warwick UUCP : ..!mcvax!ukc!warwick!alfie, alfie@warwick.UUCP | Coventry, UK.