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From: ziegast@egypt (Eric Ziegast)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Using the %(friendly{}) format
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Date: 22 Mar 90 10:12:26 GMT
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Tom Christiansen writes:
>In article <9003192327.AA07968@abyss.eng.umd.edu> ziegast@mordor ("Eric W. Zie
gast") writes:
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>First what does the friendly format do?
>>On the commands that use it, it turns these:
>>
>>a)	ziegast@mordor.eng.umd.edu (Eric W. Ziegast)
>>b)	ziegast@mordor.eng.umd.edu
>>c)	"Eric W. Ziegast" <ziegast@mordor.eng.umd.edu>
>>
>>into these:
>>
>>a)	Eric W. Ziegast
>>b)	ziegast@mordor.eng.umd.edu
>>c)	"Eric W. Ziegast"
>
>Bizarre.  I get b and c the same, but a comes out the same as b
>for me here.  Here is my configuration.  
>
>version: MH 6.6 #9[UCI] (convexs) of Fri Feb 23 18:59:01 CST 1990
>options: [BSD43] [BSD42] [DUMB] [MHRC] [RPATHS] [MHE] [ATZ]
>         [FOLDPROT='"0700"'] [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [SBACKUP='".#"']
>         [SENDMTS] [SMTP]
>

Maybe it was one of the patches. Here's what I got:

version: MH 6.6.5 #4[UCI] (frob) of Fri Mar 9 23:08:52 EST 1990
options: [BSD42] [TTYD] [MHE] [NETWORK] [BIND] [RPATHS]
         [FOLDPROT='"0700"'] [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [MHRC]
         [UCI] [SENDMTS] [SMTP]

I stuck somewhat close with the conf/MH defaults that I got from
ics.uci.edu.

Now that I think about it, maybe I should have compiled it with 
BSD43. In fact, I may just recompile it.

Anyone know specifically what NETWORK, TTYD, BSD43, and DUMB do?
MH-GEN is not to clear on it.

And how does one use the UCI option's $HOME/.signature files?

>I've been playing with a conditional to test if there's
>a personal part and to use that if so, but it just doesn't
>work.
Doesn't friendly do that anyway? I think it uses (pers{}) if it
finds one and the address if it doesn't. I don't know what note does.
It doesn't return anything for me anyway.

Eric Z
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