What is the mh directory?

Aaron Howell aaron at kitten.net.au
Mon Jul 22 19:08:15 EDT 2002


They're part of a mail reading program called mh.
Regards
Aaron
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 07:21:13AM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Thanks for clearing a little, but what are the mh scripts?
> 
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> From: "Aaron Howell" <aaron at kitten.net.au>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 5:52 AM
> Subject: Re: What is the mh directory?
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> on redhat, /usr/bin/mh is a symbolic link to /usr/bin
> This is most likely because the mh scripts expect to find their support
> files in /usr/bin/mh,
> yet the fsstnd states that binaries should be in /usr/bin 9and not
> subdirectories thereof).
> So with that symbolic link you can address mh scripts as
> /usr/bin/mh/scriptname or /usr/bin/scriptname.
> Regards
> aaron
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 04:05:42PM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > What is the /usr/bin/mh directory?
> >
> > I ask this because I've seen another mh in it, that has another mh in it,
> > ... and so on, and I think it is an infinite loop.
> >
> > If I try to find out the size of this directory with Internet Explorer of
> > Windows, it tells me that I have there files with a size bigger than my
> hard
> > disks.
> >
> > Is it normal, or it is a problem of my Red Hat?
> >
> > It is just like when a parent mh directory and its mh child, have the same
> > cluster number, and when entering in the child directory, I see what is in
> > the parent one.
> >
> > I don't know if this is a normal Linux link, because I don't understand
> why
> > to link a child to the parent.
> >
> > Can you tell me?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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