Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:16:01 -0700 (PDT) From: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/18286: mailx, which is part of Unix 98, does not exist Message-ID: <200004290016.RAA59305@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 18286 >Category: misc >Synopsis: mailx, which is part of Unix 98, does not exist >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: wish >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Apr 28 17:20:01 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gerald Pfeifer >Release: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE >Organization: Vienna University of Technology >Environment: n/a >Description: mailx, which is part of Unix 98 (http://www.UNIX-systems.org/), does not exist in FreeBSD 3.x, nor 4.x or 5.x, as far as I could see. This is bad, as this renders writing portable scripts extremely hard. Solaris, AIX, and DEC OSF do have this program, for example. >How-To-Repeat: `which mailx` on any vanilla FreeBSD installation. >Fix: There is a mailx entry in the ports tree that might be moved into the base system, but I'm not sure whether that indeed is compliant with the standard. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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