mhl Reference Guide

mhl: produce formatted listing of MH messages

-bell (default)

Ring bell after each page (only with -nomoreproc)

-nobell

Don't ring bell (only with -nomoreproc)

-clear

Clear screen before each page (only with -nomoreproc)

-noclear (default)

Don't clear screen (only with -nomoreproc)

-folder folder

Folder name to display with Messagename: component:
  (Message folder:files)
NOT name of folder to read message from!

-form formfile

Name of format file (default: mhl.format)

-length lines

Number of lines to display (only with -nomoreproc; default: screen length, else 40)

-width columns

Number of columns to display (only with -nomoreproc; default: screen width, else 80)

-moreproc program

Text paging program (default: more)

-nomoreproc

Use internal paging routine

files ...

UNIX relative or absolute pathname of message file(s)

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This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This file is freely-available; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see the file copying.htm.