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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
-    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.

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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