From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
To: "The Unix Heritage Society mailing list" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Systematic approach to command-line interfaces
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:27:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CMM.0.95.0.1627748820.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu> (raw)
Besides C-Kermit on Unix systems, the TOPS-20 command interface is
used inside the mm mail client, which I've been using for decades on
TOPS-20, VMS, and several flavors of Unix:
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/mm
mm doesn't handle attachments, or do fancy display of HTML, and thus,
cannot do anything nasty in response to incoming mail messages.
I rarely need to extract an attachment, and I then save the message in
a temporary file and run munpack on it.
Here are some small snippets of its inline help:
MM] read (messages) ? message number
or range of message numbers, n:m
or range of message numbers, n-m
or range of message numbers, n+m (m messages beginning with n)
or "." to specify the current message
or "*" to specify the last message
or message sequence, one of the following:
after all answered before
current deleted flagged from
inverse keyword last longer
new on previous-sequence recent
seen shorter since subject
text to unanswered undeleted
unflagged unkeyword unseen
or "," and another message sequence
R] read (messages) flagged since yesterday
[message(s) appear here]
MM] headers (messages) since monday longer (than) 100000
[list of long messages here]
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