10/20/83  read_mail request:  log

Syntax:  log {message_specifiers} {-control_args}


Function:  places a copy of the specified messages into the user's
"log" mailbox (logbox).


Arguments:
message_specifiers
   identifies which messages are to be logged.  If no
   message_specifiers are supplied, the current message is logged.  For
   more information on message specifiers, type:
         help message_specifiers.gi


Control arguments:
-include_deleted, -idl
   includes all messages in the mailbox whether or not they have been
   deleted when processing the message_specifiers to determine which
   messages will be logged.
-only_deleted, -odl
   includes only those messages which have been deleted.
-only_non_deleted, -ondl
   includes only those messages which have not been deleted.  (Default)


-delete, -dl
   marks the specified messages for deletion on exit from read_mail
   if all messages are successfully logged.
-no_delete, -ndl
   does not mark the messages for deletion.  (Default)
-reverse, -rv
   logs the messages in descending numeric order.
-no_reverse, -nrv
   logs the messages in ascending numeric order.  (Default)


Notes:
The user's logbox is the mailbox --
      >udd>Project_id>Person_id>Person_id.sv.mbx
which will be created automatically by this request if it does not
already exist.  The user will be informed when the logbox is created.

This request will acknowledge any messages requiring acknowledgement
unless -no_acknowledge is specified on the read_mail command line.


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Historical Background

This edition of the Multics software materials and documentation is provided and donated
to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Group BULL including BULL HN Information Systems Inc. 
as a contribution to computer science knowledge.  
This donation is made also to give evidence of the common contributions of Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Bell Laboratories, General Electric, Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Honeywell BULL Inc., Groupe BULL
and BULL HN Information Systems Inc. to the development of this operating system. 
Multics development was initiated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Project MAC (1963-1970),
renamed the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in the mid 1970s, under the leadership
of Professor Fernando Jose Corbato. Users consider that Multics provided the best software architecture 
for managing computer hardware properly and for executing programs. Many subsequent operating systems 
incorporated Multics principles.
Multics was distributed in 1975 to 2000 by Group Bull in Europe , and in the U.S. by Bull HN Information Systems Inc., 
as successor in interest by change in name only to Honeywell Bull Inc. and Honeywell Information Systems Inc. .

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    Copyright 1972 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Honeywell Information Systems Inc.
    Copyright 2006 by BULL HN Information Systems Inc.
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