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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
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Subject: Re: request for mailer information
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Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 00:27:52 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  5 00:27:52 1987
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> perhaps you would find the MM program available for Unix and VMS
> which is derived on the version for TOPS-20 to be superior
> to what you are using.  I suggest contacting Kashtan@IU.AI.SRI.COM
> for more information.  

TOPS20 MM is a fine program in its environment.  Unix MM doesn't feel
like Unix:  it feels like a little TOPS20 island plopped into the midst
of Unix.  You may consider that a plus.  I don't.

It uses its own format for mail files, different from what Unix mail
uses, so I haven't found a way to make it read Unix mail files.  (It reads
incoming mail into ~/mail.txt, making alterations to suit its format in
the process.)  MM also seems to think that "/" is a TOPS20 switch
metacharacter or some such, so it doesn't understand Unix pathnames.  The
built-in help uses TOPS20 terminology to the extent of referring to
documentation files in TOPS20 syntax (e.g., DOC:<FOO>BAR.DOC;1).

Mike Khaw
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