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Re: where is mail command?
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried at heintze dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, "'Jason Curl'" <j dot m dot curl at optusnet dot com dot au>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:37:19 -0500
- Subject: Re: where is mail command?
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0411261638280.14489@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> <200411261502484.SM01236@fasolt>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 05:01 PM 11/26/2004, you wrote:
>As I recall, there is a mail command on most implementations of U*X. So I
>looked thru the documentation in Cygwin and could find no documentation. The
>mail command is not working either.
>
>When I type "info mail" at the bash prompt I see "Unable to find node
>referenced by mailshar". "man mail" says "No manual entry for mail". I tried
>looking in the 4 documentation directories too -- no luck again.
Documentation for packages come with the packages. If you haven't installed
a package, you won't find that you have any documentation for that package.
Probably the most obvious way to determine what mail packages Cygwin has is
to run 'setup.exe' and open the 'Mail' category. There will be a list of
a number of packages that have something to do with mail. 'email' or 'mutt'
are probably the closest offerings of (your) interest, though feel free to
install and/or investigate everything in that category. Once you install
any of these packages, you should have man and/or info pages as well as any
Cygwin specific setup/configuration documentation in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/
<package> for each package you install.
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