Re: [SAGE] Output from "cron" command

["Brandon S. Allbery "KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>]

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 13:55, John Sellens wrote:
> I think the old Berkeley mail command may have had this problem,
> but it seems to have been fixed in many (most?) places by now.

Okay, now I'm curious:  when I first encountered Berkeley mail/mailx, it
only accepted ~-commands when stdin was a tty or .mailrc had "set henry"
in it (and the manpage said "don't ask why it's named that"...).  I
think this was on a System III with some 4BSD stuff added in (Plexus
sys3 if anyone else cares).  Mid-80s in any case.  Was this a Plexus
hack or did some early BSD release do that and then later make
~-interpretation the default?

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electrical and computer engineering                              KF8NH
carnegie mellon university  [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]