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authorGravatar Barry Jaspan <bjaspan@mit.edu>1991-11-15 13:31:45 +0000
committerGravatar Barry Jaspan <bjaspan@mit.edu>1991-11-15 13:31:45 +0000
commit7c93e5502f46bf27d0f87f5b9dbcb6eb7f7c8f1b (patch)
tree2f32a5f3fa44b6d71ef373e3d6e45cf9046cb5d3 /clients
parentbd7ecb954270b8a1282f44b7926424f2d839d0a4 (diff)
added unsubscriptions and /etc/passwd for signature
Diffstat (limited to 'clients')
-rw-r--r--clients/xzwrite/xzwrite.117
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/clients/xzwrite/xzwrite.1 b/clients/xzwrite/xzwrite.1
index 328b25d..d3b4d6a 100644
--- a/clients/xzwrite/xzwrite.1
+++ b/clients/xzwrite/xzwrite.1
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ each is interpreted in the following way: a line containing no commas
is taken to mean <MESSAGE,PERSONAL,string>; a line with one comma is
taken to be either <class,instance,*> or <MESSAGE,instance,recipient>
depending on the value of the classInst resource (see below); a line
-with two commas is taken to be <class,instance,recipient>. The lines
+with two commas is taken to be <class,instance,recipient>. A line
+that begins with an exclamation point (!) is treated as an
+"unsubscription" and has the effect of removing destinations read
+from any other file that match the destination on that line. The lines
must appear
.B WITHOUT WHITESPACE
between the fields and with a linefeed between each line. Blank lines
@@ -255,7 +258,9 @@ appear as the first field in every message sent.
.I Xzwrite
will also look in the user's .zephyr.vars file to a signature, first
for the variable xzwrite-signature and then for the variable
-zwrite-signature.
+zwrite-signature. If neither is found,
+.I Xzwrite
+will look in the /etc/passwd file for the user's name.
.TP
.B +n (ping = true)
.br
@@ -372,6 +377,9 @@ Default icon bitmap
/usr/sipb/lib/app-defaults/XZwrite
Xzwrite program defaults
.TP
+/etc/passwd
+Signature field (from gecos information)
+.TP
~/.Xresources
user X resources database file
.TP
@@ -395,6 +403,5 @@ This man page contains many errors and omissions.
.SH AUTHOR
-Written by Barr3y Jaspan (bjaspan@athena.mit.edu), MIT Project Athena
-and MIT Student Information Processing Board, for X11R4, the X
-Toolkit, and the Athena Widgets.
+Written by Barry Jaspan (bjaspan@mit.edu), MIT Project Athena
+and MIT Student Information Processing Board.