[Nmh-workers] nmh unix shells

[norm]

>ps...
>If all you want from mh is "show/next/comp/repl/rmm" you might just as well
>use thunderbird, or sylpheed, or even outlook express.

Not even that's true. Such a user still has all the power of a Unix shell.
For example, if she is using bash:

% !scan

or

% show irs | egrep -i 'penalty|assess'

% show last  >> /tmp/snailLetterToJohn

When mh was first conceived, its interface (the, then, Unix shell) was pretty
primitive compared to its contemporary interface (the, now, Unix shell).
This improvement was achieved without changing a line of mh or nmh source.

    Norman Shapiro
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