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GURU(8) 						      System Manager's Manual							   GURU(8)

NAME

       guru - System administration

SYNOPSIS

       guru [ -e program ] [ -f ] [ -p target ]

DESCRIPTION

       guru  is  a sophisticated program synthesis and system maintenance tool developed after midnight in numerous university computing labs.	It
       is based on the famous LISP Hacker system, used to develop AI programs on TENEX.  guru reads a problem description from the standard input.
       An  innovative  and  occasionally  correct solution is generated and written to the standard output.  Typically, guru is invoked repeatedly
       until an acceptable solution is generated or the user community has learned to live with the problem.

       The bugreport mechanism sometimes invokes guru.	In this case guru executes at a priority inversely proportional to the reported urgency of
       the bug.  Feature enhancements run at high priority whereas critical problems are fixed only when the machine would otherwise be idle.

       If  the standard input is empty, guru uses its program synthesis capabilities to generate a selection of screen editors, X widgets, compil-
       ers, sundry games and the occasional diatribe.

OPTIONS

       -e program
	       New features are added to an existing program.  This option should be used with caution as the enhanced program may  behave  unpre-
	       dictably or not at all.

       -f      Reconstructs filesystems after a crash.

       -p target
	       Ports the entire system on which guru is executing to target, preferably a RISC machine.  This is an extremely time consuming oper-
	       ation and is not guaranteed to terminate.

       If more than one option is specified, guru may thrash.  Each copy of guru has its own set of unique, additional and undocumented options.

SEE ALSO

       YAPS: Yet another Program Synthesiser by S C Johnson.

NOTES

       Inherent design limitations prevent guru from synthesising comments.  The programs generated are undocumented.  The  lucidity,  politeness,
       relevance and language of the occasional diatribe vary considerably.

       The  only diagnostic is an occasional ``I deserve a raise'' - which may be ignored albeit doing so may provoke ``I resign'' - an unrecover-
       able error.

       Sending the output of one guru into another can produce quite startling results.

UNIX Programmer's Manual														   GURU(8)

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mhmail(1)						      General Commands Manual							 mhmail(1)

NAME

       mhmail - send or read mail (only available within the message handling system, mh)

SYNOPSIS

       mhmail [addrs...] [options]

OPTIONS

       Specifies  the  text  of the message. If it is specified, then the standard input is not read.  Specifies addresses to be placed in the cc:
       field of the message.  Specifies the content of the From: header of the draft. The address given is placed in the From: field of  the  mes-
       sage.  The  Sender:  field is filled in correctly by post.  Prints a list of the valid options for this command.  Specifies the mail system
       over which mail is sent. The only value allowed is smtp, which is the standard mail system.  Additional values are supported only  for  use
       with other mail systems.  Provides the text of the Subject: field of the message.

DESCRIPTION

       The  mhmail  program is intended as a replacement for the standard mail programs, bellmail and ucbmail. See binmail(1) and mail(1) for more
       details of these mail programs. When invoked without arguments, it simply invokes inc to incorporate new messages from the user's maildrop.
       When  one  or  more  users is specified, a message is read from the standard input and spooled to a temporary file. The mhmail program then
       invokes post with the name of the temporary file as its argument to deliver the message to the specified user.

       Normally, people will use comp and send to send messages.

RESTRICTIONS

       Messages with a null body part will not be sent by mhmail.  You must include some body text in all messages to be sent by mhmail.

       For this version, the -mts option only supports the value smtp. Additional values are supported for use only with other mail systems.

FILES

       Program to incorporate a maildrop into a folder.  Program to deliver a message.	Temporary copy of message.

SEE ALSO

       inc(1), post(8)

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