10/21/83  send_mail request:  send

Syntax:  send {addresses} {-control_args}


Function:  delivers the message.


Arguments:
addresses
   specifies the recipients of the message.  If no addresses are
   specified, the message is delivered to the current list of primary,
   secondary, and "blind" recipients.  Type:
         help addresses.gi -section control argument
   for a description of the syntax of addresses.


Control arguments:
   With the exception of -abort/-no_abort, these control arguments
   override the default values specified on the send_mail command line.
   The defaults listed here are those which apply if these control
   arguments were not given on the send_mail command line.


-abort
   does not send the message to any recipient unless it can be sent to
   all recipients.  (Default)
-no_abort
   sends the message to as many recipients as possible.
-acknowledge, -ack
   requests an acknowledgement from the recipients when they read the
   message.
-no_acknowledge, -nack
   does not request an acknowledgement.  (Default)


-brief, -bf
   shortens some informative messages and suppresses others.
-long, -lg
   prints the long form of alll informative messages.  (Default)
-notify, -nt
   sends a "You have mail." notification to each recipient.  (Default)
-no_notify, -nnt
   does not send the notification.


Notes:
If addresses are given to the send request, the message is delivered
only to those recipients and to none of the primary, secondary, or
"blind" recipients.  Otherwise, the message is sent only to the
primary, secondary, and "blind" recipients.


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This donation is made also to give evidence of the common contributions of Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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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., 
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