UNIX Filesystem Overview

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MH is different from other UNIX mail user agents because it takes special advantage of the UNIX filesystem. The Figure below is a diagram of typical files and directories that MH and uses.

Figure: Important parts of a UNIX filesystem

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Here's an explanation of each of the filesystem parts:

To keep things simple, the diagram omits a lot of directories. It also omits some (or many) of the files in each directory.

One of the handiest ways to use the information in this figure is to create separate MH sessions. This lets you work on more than one message, in more than one folder, simultaneously.

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This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This file is freely-available; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see the file copying.htm.

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