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Re: where is mail command?


At 05:01 PM 11/26/2004, you wrote:
>As I recall, there is a mail command on most implementations of U*X. So I
>looked thru the documentation in Cygwin and could find no documentation. The
>mail command is not working either.
>
>When I type "info mail" at the bash prompt I see "Unable to find node
>referenced by mailshar". "man mail" says "No manual entry for mail". I tried
>looking in the 4 documentation directories too -- no luck again.


Documentation for packages come with the packages.  If you haven't installed
a package, you won't find that you have any documentation for that package.
Probably the most obvious way to determine what mail packages Cygwin has is
to run 'setup.exe' and open the 'Mail' category.  There will be a list of 
a number of packages that have something to do with mail.  'email' or 'mutt'
are probably the closest offerings of (your) interest, though feel free to 
install and/or investigate everything in that category.  Once you install 
any of these packages, you should have man and/or info pages as well as any
Cygwin specific setup/configuration documentation in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/
<package> for each package you install.



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