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Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?



On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:52:51PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>  Now there doesn't seem to be an alternative for the MUAs or the NUAs.
> I'd really like to have that in there so that packages like pinfo or
> muttzilla (just for an example) could work "out of the box" without
> needing to twitch with the configuration files.  I think that would be a
> good thing, don't you think so?

I don't think that works; /etc/alternatives only works for
commands with compatible interfaces. Do most mail readers have
the same command line interface? Perhaps, but I really doubt
that news readers do.


Cheers
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>


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