Mail Reference Manual?

2012-07-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht 
mail(1) man page mentions the Mail Reference Manual.
The only one I can find is here:
docs.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/07.mail/paper.pdf
Is this the one? The URL isn't that definitive.
It seems to be in troff. Anybody got the sources
of this document?

Anyway, the description of the save command in
this reference manual is correct, while the description
of the same command in mail(1) man page is wrong.
I wanted to copy the relevant fragment from the reference
manual to the man page, if I can find the troff
sources for the reference.

In fact, perhaps it's better to merge the reference
manual into the mail(1) man page completely? Or
at least add the sources into the base OS too?
I understand mail is not very popular these days,
but for me a combination of mail/mpack does all I need.
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Re: Mail Reference Manual?

2012-07-31 Thread Polytropon 
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:45:29 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
 mail(1) man page mentions the Mail Reference Manual.
 The only one I can find is here:
 docs.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/07.mail/paper.pdf
 Is this the one? The URL isn't that definitive.

There's also a local version installed into
/usr/share/doc/usd/07.mail as paper.ps.gz and
paper.ascii.gz. The corresponding source tree
item is a Makefile in /usr/src/share/doc/usd/07.mail
which points you to investigate /usr/src/usr.bin/mail/USD.doc;
here are the nr (nroff) source files.



 In fact, perhaps it's better to merge the reference
 manual into the mail(1) man page completely?

Sounds possible.



 Or
 at least add the sources into the base OS too?

A pointer to the locally installed documentation
would be nice, as it belongs to the base system
just like the manpage does, even if it's just
mentioned in the SEE ALSO section.



 I understand mail is not very popular these days,
 but for me a combination of mail/mpack does all I need.

Maybe it looks to you that it's not popular among users,
but it's very popular among programs. :-)




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