mailx for an ATT 3B1

Larry McVoy lm at arizona.edu
Sun Mar 27 07:09:05 AEST 1988


In article <1089 at unisec.usi.com> dpw at unisec.USI.COM (Darryl P. Wagoner) writes:
>It seems to me that mailx is a port from BSD /usr/ucb/[Mm]ail,  if so how 
>can it be AT&T proprietary?  

A)  Most BSD code is derived from AT&T code.
B)  AT&T did a lot of work on their "port"; Mailx has many nifty features
    not in BSD's Mail.
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Larry McVoy	lm at arizona.edu or ...!{uwvax,sun}!arizona.edu!lm



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