Suggested exit status from messages

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From: Dave Taylor
Date: Mon, 04 May 1987 18:16

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From: Bill Silvert <seismo!dalcs!biomel!bill@hplabs.HP.COM>
Subject: Suggested exit status from messages
Date: Mon, 4 May 87 9:36:31 ADT

I've changed the last line of messages from exit 0 to exit $mcount.
This lets me put the line
	messages && from
in my .login file (of course I could also invoke from within message itself!).

William Silvert, Modelling & Statistics Group
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA
...!{seismo,utai}!dalcs!biomel!bill
	biomel!bill@cs.dal.cdn

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Subject: Suggested exit status from messages
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