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1.1     ! root        1: .TH BINMAIL 1 "16 November 1979"
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: binmail \- send or receive mail among users
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B /bin/mail
        !             6: [
        !             7: .B +
        !             8: ] [
        !             9: .B \-i
        !            10: ] [ person ] ...
        !            11: .br
        !            12: .B /bin/mail
        !            13: .B "[ + ]"
        !            14: [
        !            15: .B \-i
        !            16: ]
        !            17: .B \-f
        !            18: file
        !            19: .LP
        !            20: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            21: Note: This is the old version 7 UNIX system mail program.  The default
        !            22: .I mail
        !            23: command is described in
        !            24: .IR Mail (1),
        !            25: and its binary is in the directory
        !            26: .IR /usr/ucb .
        !            27: .PP
        !            28: .I mail
        !            29: with no argument prints a user's mail, message-by-message,
        !            30: in last-in, first-out order; the optional argument
        !            31: .B +
        !            32: displays the mail messages in first-in, first-out order.
        !            33: For each message, it reads a line from the standard input
        !            34: to direct disposition of the message.
        !            35: .TP
        !            36: newline
        !            37: Go on to next message.
        !            38: .TP
        !            39: d
        !            40: Delete message and go on to the next.
        !            41: .TP
        !            42: p
        !            43: Print message again.
        !            44: .TP
        !            45: \-
        !            46: Go back to previous message.
        !            47: .TP
        !            48: .RI "s [" " file " "] ..."
        !            49: Save the message in the named
        !            50: .I files
        !            51: (`mbox' default).
        !            52: .TP
        !            53: .RI "w [" " file " "] ..."
        !            54: Save the message, without a header, in the named
        !            55: .I files
        !            56: (`mbox' default).
        !            57: .TP
        !            58: .RI "m [" " person " "] ..."
        !            59: Mail the message to the named
        !            60: .I persons
        !            61: (yourself is default).
        !            62: .TP
        !            63: EOT (control-D)
        !            64: Put unexamined mail back in the mailbox and stop.
        !            65: .TP
        !            66: q
        !            67: Same as EOT.
        !            68: .TP
        !            69: .RI ! command
        !            70: Escape to the Shell to do
        !            71: .IR command .
        !            72: .TP
        !            73: *
        !            74: Print a command summary.
        !            75: .PP
        !            76: An interrupt normally terminates the 
        !            77: .I mail
        !            78: command; the mail file is unchanged.  The optional argument
        !            79: .B \(mii
        !            80: tells
        !            81: .I mail
        !            82: to continue after interrupts.
        !            83: .PP
        !            84: When
        !            85: .I persons
        !            86: are named,
        !            87: .I mail
        !            88: takes the standard input up to an end-of-file (or a line with just `.')
        !            89: and adds it to each
        !            90: .I person's
        !            91: `mail' file.  The message is preceded by the sender's name and a postmark.
        !            92: Lines that look like postmarks are prepended with `>'.  A
        !            93: .I person
        !            94: is usually a user name recognized by
        !            95: .IR  login (1).
        !            96: To denote a recipient on a remote system, prefix 
        !            97: .I person
        !            98: by the system name and exclamation mark (see
        !            99: .IR uucp (1C)).
        !           100: .PP
        !           101: The
        !           102: .B \-f
        !           103: option causes the named file, for example, `mbox',
        !           104: to be printed as if it were the mail file.
        !           105: .PP
        !           106: When a user logs in he is informed of the presence of mail.
        !           107: .SH FILES
        !           108: .ta \w'/usr/spool/mail/*.lock 'u
        !           109: /etc/passwd    to identify sender and locate persons
        !           110: .br
        !           111: .li
        !           112: /usr/spool/mail/*      incoming mail for user *
        !           113: .br
        !           114: mbox           saved mail
        !           115: .br
        !           116: /tmp/ma*       temp file
        !           117: .br
        !           118: /usr/spool/mail/*.lock lock for mail directory
        !           119: .br
        !           120: dead.letter    unmailable text
        !           121: .br
        !           122: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           123: Mail(1), write(1), uucp(1C), uux(1C), xsend(1), sendmail(8)
        !           124: .SH BUGS
        !           125: Race conditions sometimes result in a failure to remove a lock file.
        !           126: .PP
        !           127: Normally anybody can read your mail, unless it is sent by
        !           128: .IR xsend (1).
        !           129: An installation can overcome this by making
        !           130: .I mail
        !           131: a set-user-id command that owns the mail directory.

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