MH & xmh: E-mail for Users & Programmers, Second Edition

By Jerry Peek
Second Edition   
Pages: 728
ISBN 10: 1-56592-027-9 | ISBN 13: 9781565920279

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Book description

Customizing your email environment can save time and make communicating more enjoyable. MH & xmh: E-Mail for Users & Programmers explains how to use, customize, and program with the MH electronic mail commands available on virtually any UNIX system. The handbook also covers xmh, an X Window System client that runs MH programs. The second edition is updated for X Release 5 and MH 6.7.2. We added a chapter on mhook, sections explaining under-appreciated small commands and features, and more examples showing how to use MH to handle common situations.
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Customizing your email environment can save you time and make communicating more enjoyable. MH & xmh: E-mail for Users & Programmers explains how to use, customize, and program with the MH electronic mail commands. There's also entensive coverage of xmh, a standard X client that's a handy and powerful graphical interface for MH. Don't be intimidated by the size of this book: MH and xmh are easy to learn and use. You can learn to use MH by reading only the 14 pages in Chapter 4. Chapter 14 covers xmh in 19 pages (about 7 of those are Figures). All the rest of the book is there to help you do things that you never thought you could do with an email system. This handbook is packed with explanations and useful examples of MH and xmh features, some of which are only hinted at in standard documentation. The second edition is updated for X Release 5 and MH 6.7.2. We added a chapter on mhook, sections explaining under-appreciated small commands and features, and more examples showing how to use MH to handle common situations. Contents include:
  • Introduction to MH and xmh.
  • Complete descriptions of standard MH and xmh.
  • Examples and tutorials for customizing the mail systems.
  • Detailed shell programming tutorial using MH in examples.
  • Quick reference charts and reference pages for MH and xmh.
  • How to get free copies of all programs and files.

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Media reviews "MH and xmh is the definitive resource on this powerful and flexible pair of mail interfaces. It starts with tutorials for users and administrators and then moves to customization issues. The book includes a detailed section on xmh and 200 pages of appendices. At nearly 700 pages, MH and xmh is substantial, even imposing. The clear writing makes the topic approachable, however, and the book serves as both an introduction and a reference work." --Richard Morin, Unix Review, August 1993

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