mailx anyone?
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Thu Jun 14 03:43:25 UTC 2018
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 23:13:13 +0530
Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> On 2018-06-13 09:37 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On 13/06/2018 16:48, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> >> does anyone on this list still use mailx?
> >> if not regularly, at-least intermittently?
> >
> > Given that mail(1) is part of the FreeBSD base system and is pretty
> > much the same thing as mailx(1), then probably not that many will
> > use mailx(1). mail(1) is something I do use intermittently.
>
> mailx is just a link to mail. :-)
I've no idea about mail and mailx, but in general being implemented in
the same executable doesn't imply the same behaviour.
For example less and more are hard-linked, but the shared binary behaves
differently according to how it's invoked.
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