Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!hybrid!chance!john
From: john@chance.UUCP (John R. MacMillan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Looking for tools.
Summary: mailx is based on Mail
Keywords: mailx Mail
Message-ID: <1989Sep9.003146.20671@chance.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 89 00:31:46 GMT
References: <2564@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> <5773@pitt.UUCP> <583@mcdclv.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@chance.UUCP (John R. MacMillan)
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In article <583@mcdclv.UUCP> stevea@mcdclv.UUCP (Steve Alexander) writes:
|	The mailx source in Release 3 has lots and lots of AT&T copyright
|notices in it.  It may look and feel somewhat like Berkeley mail, but I
|doubt that it is based on Berkeley source.  I would also be very
|careful about copying *ANYTHING* from an AT&T distribution.

Having looked at the source for both, mailx is almost certainly derived
from Mail, but given the copyright notices, I wouldn't touch the mailx
source regardless.
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