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From: shop@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Thomas Krueger)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: checkmail (a cute little mailchecking utility)
Message-ID: <1256@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 08:51:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 15 08:51:13 1986
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Organization: Computing Sevices Electronics Shop, UW Milwaukee
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> To start up the system, you will have to create the .m file in your home
> directory; the easiest way is probably "cat > .m" followed by an end of
> file.
> -- 
> Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot
> {ihnp4,sun,well,ptsfa,lll-crg,frog}!hoptoad!tim (uucp)
> hoptoad!tim@lll-crg (arpa)
> 
> Give me food, or give me slack (or kill me).

Another coupla ways is to cp /dev/null .m , or on Berkeley systems, touch
will create the zero length file to begin with.

						- Tom
-- 
Thomas Krueger				...ihnp4!uwmcsd1!shop	or
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee	uwmcsd1!shop@rsch.wisc.EDU
Computing Services Electronics Shop
3200 N. Cramer St.			(414) 963-5172
Milwaukee Wi 53211