[464] in Athena Bugs
getting info about mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carla Fermann)
Tue Jun 28 19:45:21 1988
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: billb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 88 19:44:47 EDT
From: Carla Fermann <carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
(this is based on a 5.5.T workstation)
Hi! Right now, if you do
apropos mail
you won't get any info about mh. Heck, even if you do
apropos mh
you won't get any info about mh.
Solution:
add a line to /usr/man/whatis
that is something like:
mh -- a mail handling system
so that users will get pointed in the right direction.
(Disclaimer: -- I know that mh isn't a command, but right now, unless
you know that we use mh, you can't get info about using mail. Also, we talk about
"apropos" on the Athena Quick Ref. Card and in the other documentation)
Thanks!
Carla
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To: carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: "apropos" keyword suggestion
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 88 19:04:11 EDT
Earlier today you helped me get started with mh when I talked to you
over olc... the suggestion that was really the key was to look in the
"man mh" pages. That gave just the level of help that I, as a new user, needed.
I'm writing to suggest that if "apropos mail" listed the mh topic, I
would have saved a lot of my own time and would not have had to bother
you. Maybe I should have guessed that "mh" would be a man topic, but
it wasn't obvious until you told me. Are you the correct person to
send this kind of suggestion to?
Thanks for your help. As you can see, I did finally figure out (more
or less) what's going on!
J. D.
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