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From: mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: MAIL on AIX V. 3
Message-ID: <181@bria.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 91 21:25:46 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.215813.12245@uvm.edu>
Reply-To: mike@bria.UUCP (Mike Stefanik)
Organization: MGI Group International, Los Angeles, CA
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In an article, emily.uvm.edu!moore (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.

To have Mail page through long messages, add the following line in
your ~/.mailrc file:

	set crt=20

For a complete list of Mail options, you can refer to "Communication Concepts
and Procedures, Volume 1" section 8, pages 6-8.

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Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc, Los Angeles | Opinions stated are never realistic
Title of the week: Systems Engineer    | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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