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From: geo@george.austin.ibm.com (George Noren)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: MAIL on AIX V. 3
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Date: 9 Apr 91 13:21:53 GMT
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Reply-To: geo@george.austin.ibm.com (George Noren)
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In article <1991Apr2.215813.12245@uvm.edu>, moore@emily.uvm.edu (Bryan
Moore) writes:
> 
> I am having a problem with the mail system on AIX V. 3.
> Previously on AIX 2.2.1 on the RT, when a user was looking at
> mail, the system would prompt for a key-press when the screen
> filled up ( like it was piped into pg). On the RS/6000, the
> information just scrolls through the mail message even if it
> is 10 pages long.
> 
> Maybe this is a parameter in the .mailrc file, but I don't know
> which one.
> 


The parameter is:

	set crt=<x>

where <x> is the number of lines in the crt screen (or x-window).  This
can be put
in $HOME/.mailrc for each user, or in /usr/lib/Mail.rc for system-wide effect.
The entry causes the mail program to feed the message through the pg program if
the message exceeds <x> number of lines.


Sincerely,
George Noren

My opinions, of course...
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