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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1996-10-06 05:18:08 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1996-10-06 05:18:08 +0000
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Popclient compatibility hack.
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.SH NOTES
This program used to be called `popclient' (the name was changed
because it supports IMAP now and may well support more remote-fetch
-protocols such as DMSP in the future).
+protocols such as DMSP in the future). If called through a link named
+popclient, it will look in ~/.poprc for its run control file. As
+long as the file does not use the removed \fBlimit\fR or \fBlocalfolder\fR
+options, this should actually work.
.PP
The --stdout, --local, and --limit arguments of previous
versions have been removed. Those features did jobs that belonged to