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From: shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Why was mail_bsd(1) changed?
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Date: 1 Feb 91 19:29:46 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.185356.13375@alias.uucp>
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In article <1991Jan24.185356.13375@alias.uucp> mark@alias.uucp (Mark Andrews) writes:
>
>... in your version of Berkeley mail, you have made 'R' and 'r' equivalent
>with 'Ra' or 'ra' replacing 'r'. Why was it changed? I prefer it the way it
>is, and would like it changed back if possible.

I'd go further.  The Iris man page describes the original Berkeley way of doing
things:  R->sender, r->all recipients.  This has never worked on my machine.
There is no mention of ra.  I just tried it and it does work.  So I'm rather
peeved that not only did they change the interface; they also didn't tell us 
that they changed it, and didn't tell us at all that a functionality that I,
at least, used to use all the time, is in fact, still available.

This is a 4d25tg running 3.2.1.

	-P.
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