Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Thursday 2004-02-26 at 15:47 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:

> On Thursday 26 February 2004 01:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> >        -a file
> >               Attach the given file to the message.
>
> All right, I found out why it doesn't work.  mailx in SuSE 8.0 doesn't have
> the -a option.  9 does...

The command "mail" is now a symlink to "nail". Original "mail" wasn't, and
did not have that capacity. SuSE 8.1 had the original mail, and 8.2 has
nail instead... Come to think of it, I wonder if this change came after I
asked the same question here, how to send attaches from a command line,
and a poster told me to use nail instead (which I had to compile from
sources) then:

|Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:32:06 -0400
|From: Charles Philip Chan
|To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
|Subject: Re: [SLE] command line mail
|X-Message-Number-for-archive: 145199

I'm guessing that somebody at SuSE took the idea on :-)


Ouch! And this reminds me! I still have nail in "/usr/local/bin/". I
forgot to remove it (my local compiled copy from suse 8.1). Done.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson