Mailing under ULTRIX as compared to UNIX

[rad at mitre-bedford.ARPA]

>After uncountable years using msg and sndmsg on UNIX and similar products
>on TENEX, I am about to be switched to mail on ULTRIX. On first glance, I
>am traumatized!! In particular, I note a lack of forward and redirect
>commands, both of which I use frequently.

  Don't blame Ultrix, or even bsd4.2 on which it is based.  The
programs that you're used to using may be part of the Rand MH package.
On the 4.2 distro tape, MH is part of the contributed software
(/usr/src/contrib ?).  Have your system programmers install MH, and
you should be happy.

Dick Dramstad
rad at mitre-bedford