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From: joe@haddock.UUCP (Joe Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: CCA Emacs bogosity (random environment variable)
Message-ID: <597@haddock.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 10:51:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.597
Posted: Mon Jun 22 10:51:30 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Jun-87 04:54:43 EDT
References: <2750@phri.UUCP>
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston, MA
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Summary: Envariable "henry" was a hack for ucb Mail

You seem to have found a tiny bit of historical cruft: in some old
versions of the ucb Mail program there was a hack, due to Mr Henry,
which told Mail to run as if at a terminal even if isatty(0) was
false.  This was done by setting the environment variable "henry" to
1.  You want to do this if, e.g., you're talking to Mail via a pipe
and you want to have tilde escapes interpreted.

I don't think that henry=1 has any effect anymore---at least it
doesn't under 4.3 Mail or SV mailx.

--
Joe Chapman
harvard!ima!joe