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vacation \- return ``I am on vacation'' indication
returns a message to the sender of a message
telling that you are on vacation.
which would send messages to you
(assuming your login name was eric)
and send a message back to the sender.
in your home directory containing a message to be sent back
It should be an entire message
For example, it might say:
From: eric@ucbmonet.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
Subject: I am on vacation
Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: the Vacation program
I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent,
please contact Joe Kalash <kalash@ucbingres.Berkeley.EDU>.
This message will only be sent once a week to each unique
The people who have sent you messages are kept in the files
option initializes these files,
and should be executed before you modify your
reads the first line from the standard input
a nasty diagnostic is produced.
includes the ``From'' line automatically.
``From'' line includes the string
or if a ``Precedence: bulk'' or ``Precedence: junk'' line
is included in the header.