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From: dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: *.guide files
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Date: 6 Sep 90 21:04:54 GMT
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I've recently built elm on a Sun 4 and have been unable to get the
Ref.guide and other *.guide files converted into something that I
can read with 'more'.  When I run the makefile, I get an error from
troff:

No /dev/cat: try -t or -a.

I editted the makefile and put in '-a' so now it doesn't error. The
output however is really unreadable.  An example follows.  As you can
see, the output lines appear longer than 80 columns.  There are also
many instances of "\(ru".  What is it that I should do to get these
into a readable format?


Dan Watts

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 The Elm Reference Guide

 A comprehensive list of all commands, 
 options and such to the Elm mail system

 Dave Taylor

 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
 1501 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto CA
 94304

 email: taylor@hplabs.HP.COM or hplabs!taylor

 >>> Elm is now in the public trust. Bug reports, comments, etc. to: <<<

 Syd Weinstein
 Datacomp Systems, Inc.
 3837 Byron Road
 Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006-2320

 email: elm@DSI.COM or dsinc!elm

 \(co Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
 \(co Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990 by The USENET Community Trust






 The Elm Reference Guide

 (Version 2.3)

 Dave Taylor
 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
 1501 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto CA
 94304

 email: taylor@hplabs.HP.COM or hplabs!taylor

 >>> Elm is now in the public trust. Bug reports, comments, etc. to: <<<

 Syd Weinstein
 Datacomp Systems, Inc.
 3837 Byron Road
 Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006-2320

 email: elm@DSI.COM or dsinc!elm

 May 1, 1990


1. Introduction

There are many parts to a complex software system and The Elm Mail System is no different. This document
describes fully all the options available in the mailer, including the command line options, the commands (in
considerably more detail than in The Elm Users Guide) and the .elm/elmrc file.

To be more explicit, this document covers: a discussion of the .elm/elmrc file, command line options of elm,
outgoing mail processing, responses of various commands, mail archive folders, the Alias system, system aliases
etc, more on the Elm utilities, and a section for expert mail users.
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