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MR(LOCAL) UNIX System V (7 Feb 1992) MR(LOCAL)
NAME
mr - mail (or news) reader
SYNOPSIS
mr [ spool ]
DESCRIPTION
Mr is a simple reader for mail and/or news spools. It won't
obsolete elm, mailtool, emacs, mush, or even /usr/ucb/Mail,
but it allows a reader to page, reply-to, save, append,
print, forward, pipe, originate, conceal or reveal headers,
and delete or undelete mail. Mr can also be used to read
the news spools produced by the bsnews news system for leaf
nodes.
COMMANDS
An alternate mail or news spool can be named on the command
line. The initial display lists waiting messages:
1 FOP [ 22:ron@mlfarm.com (R] How to use mr
2 DOR [985:goer@sophist.uchi] Improving MR (part I)
3 N [ 61:ralph@cs.arizona.] MS-Dos Pipes
The letters after the message number indicate the status of
the message; New, Old, Replied-to, Printed, Deleted, Saved,
Forwarded. The number inside the square brackets is the
number of lines in the message, followed by the author's
name and/or email address, and the subject. The current
message is highlighted in bold or reverse video, depending
on the capabilities of the display. The prompt shows the
current message number and the total number of messages.
The following commands can be given:
A Append current message to a file
D Delete current message
F Forward current message
G Get new mail
H Help
L List headers
M Mail to a new recipient
N Next message
P Print current message
Q Quit, saving changes
R Reply-to current message
S Save current message to a file
U Undelete current message
V View all headers
X eXit without saving changes
| pipe current message to a command
! execute command
# make # current message
+ next message
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- previous message
? help
Pressing <return> will page thru the current message, then
advance the current message number. Press Q or N at a MORE
prompt to return to the command prompt.
ENVIRONMENT
The EDITOR and MAILSPOOL environmental variables can be used
to override default settings. Mr uses the TERM and TERMCAP
variables to lookup screen parameters and control strings.
SEE ALSO
mail(1), sendmail(1), bsnews(LOCAL)
BUGS
The pseudo-pipes used for ms-dos cannot handle a complex
command. Some users would undoubtedly prefer getch() style
command parsing. The pager used to display messages does
not back-up.
AUTHOR
Ronald Florence (ron@mlfarm.com).
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