Yarda wrote: > With bash-4.0 the mailcheck behaviour is annoying when there is a pseudo > message in a mailbox, e.g.:
It's unfortunate that the system's implementors chose a metadata format that is indistinguishable from a valid mail message. Since bash doesn't read the contents of a mail file at all, it's not a good idea to make it parse mail messages to work around this problem. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/