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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:28:12 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Christopher Leigh" <clcont@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? 
Message-ID:  <200103200128.f2K1SCe99911@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Christopher Leigh" <clcont@gmx.net>  of "Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:09:55 CST." <007a01c0b0da$7a392b60$ca83a7d8@king1> 

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"Christopher Leigh" writes:
> uhm, what does that do?
> 
> :D

The alias saves the memory which would be consumed with an extra shell.
Or it saves the effort of loading a shell script only to exec vi.

> but anywho. uhm.  i have to use winderz to write email/send it...
> because i like my OE5 way better than anything i've ever seen using
> bsd/linux. but really... i do enjoy "mail", although... i guess i must
> not be able to use it very well, because i can't figure out how to
> create a message when i type mail, or... figure out how to get into it
> when i don't actually have any mail...

/usr/bin/Mail is pretty basic. Is best to specify who you want to send 
mail to on the command line. "mail dkelly@hiwaay.net" will then prompt 
for a subject, then you type the message body, and end with a dot at 
the start of a line.

If you are in Mail and looking at a list of messages then "m" will let 
you compose a new message.

But if you get that far then you need something such as sendmail 
configured correctly to deliver the message. And fetchmail (from ports) 
is good for plucking incoming mail off your ISP.

On a text terminal, mutt is very good. In X I use exmh2.3.1 but have 
been liking mutt even more lately but not enough to completely switch.

What I'd really like is a BSD Eudora. With MacOS X arriving Saturday I 
think Qualcomm is going to have to be working on a BSD Eudora.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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