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From: lm@arizona.edu (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: mailx for an ATT 3B1
Message-ID: <4529@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 88 21:09:05 GMT
References: <589@eplrx7.UUCP> <23808@clyde.ATT.COM> <1089@unisec.usi.com>
Reply-To: lm@megaron.arizona.edu (Larry McVoy)
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson
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In article <1089@unisec.usi.com> dpw@unisec.USI.COM (Darryl P. Wagoner) writes:
>It seems to me that mailx is a port from BSD /usr/ucb/[Mm]ail,  if so how 
>can it be AT&T proprietary?  

A)  Most BSD code is derived from AT&T code.
B)  AT&T did a lot of work on their "port"; Mailx has many nifty features
    not in BSD's Mail.
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Larry McVoy	lm@arizona.edu or ...!{uwvax,sun}!arizona.edu!lm