The last word on GMSGS (don't you dare reply to this message!)

[Ian Macky <Ian @ MIT-OZ>]

OK, ok...  noone's ever happy.  Here's the final word on the Twenex GMSGS
server.

Since it's supposed to be compatible with the ITS one, it takes the same
set of arguments:  To specify the user whose messages are to be gotten,
give his username, or a filespec (the directory is the username (sigh)).

The default messages to get are the System ones.  You can specify FORUM
or /FORUM to get those (currently the only other BBD we use), or ALL or
/ALL to get all BBDs.

The stuff is put by default in PS:<username>MAIL.TXT, but if you specify
/ZMAIL, it goes in PS:<username>ZMAIL.TXT;  if you say /INTO you can then
specify an arbitrary output file.

The /MAIL switch remails all the messages through the mailer, so that
any bizarre forwarding you are doing will work.

/NOISY and /SILENT control how much output the thing sends back to you.
Normally you'll get "[There are messages]" or "[No messages]", but with
/SILENT you get nothing.  I can't remember what /NOISY does... I just
remember that it prints out more junk in cases where it wouldn't
normally.


I kludged around having to put some sort of terminator at the end of
the command line, so do whatever silly things you want... put a CR or
a NEWLINE or nothing... It don't care...  It equally and fairly mutilates
EVERYTHING you give it.


That's it.   Don't send bug reports....


Ian