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From: bc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
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Subject: Re: Shells for Unix Mail?
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Date: 30 May 91 03:24:30 GMT
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peregrin@hulaw1.harvard.edu writes:

>	I'm looking for suggestions for frontend shells to unix's mail.
> I'm finding that it is daunting to teach users the heavily abbreviated
>commands to unix  mail.  Something that is non-graphics based
>(vt100/200 compatible) similar (and better) to the interface you get
>with VMS mail would be nice.  A system that gives a lot of hand-holding
>would be nice too.

Try "elm".  It's available for anonymous ftp from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
under pub/elm-2.3.11.tar.Z.

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Ben Cox
bc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu