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From: renkel@motcid.UUCP (Will Renkel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ferret
Summary: very possible - command was at Bell Labs
	 it was a mail file reader with sorting etc specified by user
Message-ID: <4715@apricot12.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 14:47:33 GMT
References: <4714@cocoa7.UUCP>
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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In article <4714@cocoa7.UUCP>, protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis) writes:
> Is there a command called 'ferret' in SysV 4.0?
> -- 
> Mike Protofanousis
> msp@pronet.chi.il.us
> motcid!protofan@uunet.uu.net

When I was at ATT-BTL there was an experimental command called ferret.
I was told it was probably targeted
for the next release of UNIX.  ferret was a pgm which read your mail
and allowed you do most anything you wanted to via writing a special
interface script which allowed for selecting on many options and then
having an action field in which you indicated what you wished to do with
the message.  I used it there and loved it - but I suspect there are several
good pgms available in the world which provide similar capabilities.

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