mailx-5.5-kw 5/30/95


WHAT'S IN THIS PATCH

There are a bunch of little features, common in System V and SunOS
versions of mailx, that are missing from the NetBSD-based version
distributed with Linux.  This patch attempts to fill in some of what's
missing.

Changes from debian mailx-5.5 include:

5/4/95:

-- interpret prompt variable
-- interpret ~a and ~A tilde escapes
-- updated tildehelp list
-- changed mail.rc to ignore nothing (just my personal preference)
-- accept From lines with times of the form hh:mm (formerly took only hh:mm:ss)

5/7/95:

-- Save (S) command saves to mailbox named after author
-- take startup commands from file named by environment variable MAILRC

5/30/95:

-- -H switch for header summary only

Still to be done:

-- pipe ~p output through PAGER (see type1 in cmd1.c for an example)
-- save (s) by default to MBOX (instead of "No file specified.")
-- ~q should save to dead.letter, ~x is not known
-- update man page
-- allnet and showto ("showto" shows recipient instead of sender if sender
   is current user)

Possibly difficult:

-- interpret editheaders variable as in SunOS version

Bugs:

-- ~a,~A tilde escapes leave an extra trailing blank on each line
-- to conform to original style, I should really be using char *cp
   instead of new variables sig and prompt to be looking up variables
-- -H switch implementation is kind of gross.  grep for "hdronly" in
   source files; much room for improvement!


HOW TO INSTALL

Apply Sal Valente's debian patch first, so:

   tar xvfz mailx-5.5.tar.gz
   cd mailx-5.5
   zcat ../mailx-5.5.debian.diff.gz | patch -p1
   zcat ../mailx-5.5-kw.diff.gz | patch -p1
   make

Or you may wish to just uncompress the diff file and pick and choose
the changes that you like.


AUTHOR

Ken Whang  <Kenneth.C.Whang-1@umn.edu>