Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) will be installing a
new version of MAIL and NEWS on Tuesday, March 14, 1995 on the DEC OpenVMS
system in Oxford (MiaVX1).
 
The new version of MAIL adds the following 2 changes:
 
1)  The mail program will compresses the user's mail database every 30
    days.  This should help users recover disk space in their accounts.
2)  Users can now specify a TPU editor configuration that is specific to
    MAIL.  In looking for an editor configuration file, MAIL will look for
    the following (in order):
      1) a MAIL_EVE$INIT logical,
      2) an EVE$INIT.MAIL file in the current directory, or
      3) a SYS$LOGIN:EVE$INIT.MAIL file.
    If all of these fail, the normal EVE initialization search takes place.
 
The new version of NEWS adds the following change:
 
1)  Users can now specify a TPU editor configuration that is specific to
    NEWS.  In looking for an editor configuration file, NEWS will look for
    the following (in order):
      1) a NEWS_EVE$INIT logical,
      2) an EVE$INIT.NEWS file in the current directory, or
      3) a SYS$LOGIN:EVE$INIT.NEWS file.
    If all of these fail, the normal EVE initialization search takes place.
 
                                     [Kent Covert, MCIS Technical Services]
 
 
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