The MH Message Handling System: User's Manual.

Abstract

A detailed description of MH, a message handling system built on the UNIX time-sharing system that enables users to compose, send, receive, store, retrieve, forward, and reply to messages. The design of MH is based on a different approach than is usually used for large systems. The command interface to MH is the UNIX 'shell' (the standard UNIX command interpreter), and each message handling activity is a separate command. Each program is driven from and updates a private user environment which contains information permitting MH to be custom tailored. MH stores each message as a separate file and utilizes the tree-structured UNIX file system to organize groups of files into directories, or 'folders.' All UNIX facilities for dealing with files and directories are applicable to messages and folders, obviating the need for code that duplicates the supporting-system facilities. This report will familiarize non-users with the general features of message handling systems, and it provides a complete user's manual for system users. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA081992

Entities

People

  • Bruce S. Borden
  • Norman Z. Shapiro
  • R. Stockton Gaines

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Classification
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Directories
  • Electronic Mail
  • Environment
  • Geographic Regions
  • Message Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Shell Scripts
  • Standards
  • Text Messaging
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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