stty: : Not a typewriter

[Ward Griffiths]

rmfowler at texrex.uucp (Rex Fowler) writes:

>In article <1991Mar7.130721.4475 at dms3b1.uucp> dave at dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna) writes:
>>In article <1496 at das13.snide.com> dave at das13.snide.com (Dave Snyder) writes:
	
>>I've gotten rid of it by adding "shell=/bin/sh" to my EXINIT environment
>>variable.  That causes sh instead of ksh to be used for any "!" actions.
>>However, I'm not really satisfied with that solution, because sh doesn't
>>understand "~/" notation, so I have to use $HOME (e.g., ":r $HOME/.signature")
>>which is annoying.
	
>Yuck...
>And doesn't your mailer or poster add your .signature for you anyway?
	
Believe it or not, neither the AT&T /bin/mail or the BSD 
/usr/ucb/mail (known as mailx on many AT&T systems will append 
a signature to a message automatically.  It's only when you get 
involved with the fancier mailers that this feature becomes 
available.  Most posting and newsreading software presently in 
use does this also.  But the older mail programs are really 
quite primitive things, and the mail program provided with the 
Unix PC is more primitive than that I first used with Version 7 
Tandy Xenix.

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