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1.1     ! root        1: .bp
        !             2: .sh 1 "Command line options"
        !             3: .pp
        !             4: This section describes command line options for
        !             5: .i Mail
        !             6: and what they are used for.
        !             7: .ip \-N
        !             8: Suppress the initial printing of headers.
        !             9: .ip \-d
        !            10: Turn on debugging information.  Not of general interest.
        !            11: .ip "\-f file"
        !            12: Show the messages in
        !            13: .i file
        !            14: instead of your system mailbox.  If
        !            15: .i file
        !            16: is omitted,
        !            17: .i Mail
        !            18: reads
        !            19: .i mbox
        !            20: in your home directory.
        !            21: .ip \-i
        !            22: Ignore tty interrupt signals.  Useful on noisy phone lines, which
        !            23: generate spurious RUBOUT or DELETE characters.  It's usually
        !            24: more effective to change your interrupt character to control\-c,
        !            25: for which see the
        !            26: .i stty
        !            27: shell command.
        !            28: .ip \-n
        !            29: Inhibit reading of /usr/lib/Mail.rc.  Not generally useful, since
        !            30: /usr/lib/Mail.rc is usually empty.
        !            31: .ip "\-s string"
        !            32: Used for sending mail.
        !            33: .i String
        !            34: is used as the subject of the message being composed.  If
        !            35: .i string
        !            36: contains blanks, you must surround it with quote marks.
        !            37: .ip "\-u name"
        !            38: Read
        !            39: .i names's
        !            40: mail instead of your own.  Unwitting others often neglect to protect
        !            41: their mailboxes, but discretion is advised.
        !            42: .pp
        !            43: The following command line flags are also recognized, but are
        !            44: intended for use by programs invoking
        !            45: .i Mail
        !            46: and not for people.
        !            47: .ip "\-T file"
        !            48: Arrange to print on
        !            49: .i file
        !            50: the contents of the
        !            51: .i article-id
        !            52: fields of all messages that were either read or deleted.
        !            53: .b \-T
        !            54: is for the
        !            55: .i readnews
        !            56: program and should NOT be used for reading your mail.
        !            57: .ip "\-h number"
        !            58: Pass on hop count information.
        !            59: .i Mail
        !            60: will take the number, increment it, and pass it with
        !            61: .b \-h
        !            62: to the mail delivery system.
        !            63: .b \-h
        !            64: only has effect when sending mail and is used for network mail
        !            65: forwarding.
        !            66: .ip "\-r name"
        !            67: Used for network mail forwarding:  interpret
        !            68: .i name
        !            69: as the sender of the message.  The
        !            70: .i name
        !            71: and
        !            72: .b \-r
        !            73: are simply sent along to the mail delivery system.  Also,
        !            74: .i Mail
        !            75: will wait for the message to be sent and return the exit status.
        !            76: Also restricts formatting of message.
        !            77: .pp
        !            78: Note that
        !            79: .b \-h
        !            80: and
        !            81: .b \-r ,
        !            82: which are for network mail forwarding, are not used in practice
        !            83: since mail forwarding is now handled separately.  They may
        !            84: disappear soon.

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