What's the flag for the alias-file pipe to msgs under 3.1/2.1?
Blair P. Houghton
bph at buengc.BU.EDU
Fri Mar 2 09:37:34 AEST 1990
For some reason, msgs(6) is unsupported in Ultrix.
For no reason, the manual page doesn't list the proper
flag to use when implementing the msgs alias in /usr/lib/aliases.
Looking on other BSD's, one sees
msgs: "|/usr/ucb/msgs -s"
But the -s is not documented in the section 6 man-page for msgs.
I _could_ just run through all the unused letters of the alphabet,
but something entirely unsettling tells me there may not be
one for this.
Also, would it be illegal to make /usr/msgs a symbolic link to
/usr/local/msgs?
--Blair
"RTFM until you Throw TFM
at TF Wall and yell, 'F!'."
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