MSG 1/11/79 MSG NAME MSG - utility for manipulating message files SYNOPSIS msg [-f[n]] [-p[n]] [file] DESCRIPTION MSG is a message file editor. The message files which it can work on are those used by the utility SNDMSG, as well as files created by MSG. There are two files in a user's home directory which are used by SNDMSG and MSG - mymail and mbox. If MSG is invoked without a file argument, MSG will initially read mymail. mbox is the file where the messages from mymail are saved by default. The -f switch is used to change the number of fill characters written to the terminal whenever a carriage-return,line-feed pair is written. The -p switch can be used to change the page size (number of lines per screenful) for MSG to use when displaying long output. The default is 22 lines. A primer is available, and may be had by the execution of the following shell script: % msgprim This will cause a copy of the primer to be displayed on standard output. In order to obtain the test message file used in the primer, execution of the following shell script: % msgtest will cause the test message file to be copied to standard output. In order to run the test yourself, the following shell commands should suffice % msgtest >test.msg ; msg test.msg FILES mymail - messages sent using the SNDMSG utility reside here. mbox - default file for saving messages from mymail. one scratch file is used by MSG. SEE ALSO SNDMSG - the utility for sending mail to other users msplit - the utility for salvaging message files AUTHOR -1- MSG 1/11/79 MSG MSG was written by Joe Sventek BUGS/DEFICIENCIES -2-