Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!qiclab!neighorn From: neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Smail 2.5 on V/386 Message-ID: <1910@qiclab.UUCP> Date: 20 Dec 88 11:01:42 GMT References: <713@wa3wbu.UUCP> Reply-To: neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn) Organization: Qic Laboratories, Portland, Oregon. Lines: 17 In article <713@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes: >....it kicks out the error "mail -s invalid option" or something >close to this. I didnt write down the exact wording. I restore the.... You need to create a file in /usr/lib/mailx called "mailx.rc." The file contains default information for the mail program. Add the line unset addsopt to the file, and you should be set. You might want to change other options as well. Check the manual for the sopt settings as well as several others. "Smail 2.5" works great on the 80386! -- Steven C. Neighorn !tektronix!{psu-cs,reed,ogccse}!qiclab!neighorn Intel Corporation "Where we BUILD the Star Fighters that defend the Development Tools Operation frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada" 80960 Language Group work: (503) 696-7264 / home: (503) 645-7015