The purpose of the makeallmsg Bourne shell script is to
create a Bourne shell script (default name allmsg)
that you can use to broadcast an
email message to each member of your class.
The makeallmsg script uses the namelist file
required by the submit program to create the
email sending
shell script.
The advantage of the
allmsg
script over including the list of
email
addresses for you entire class in the
To: line of one email message is that
each member of your class will receive her or his own privately
addressed email message.
Usage: makeallmsg [ -f scriptname ] name_list_file
'scriptname' is the name of the script to be produced
default is "allmsg"
'name_list_file' is a file containing student user ids, email addresses
echo and names, one student per line. Each line is expected to be of
the form
user id email address name
turing aturing@erols.com Alan Mathison Turing
Everything after the email address is treated as a part of the name
allmsg script
allmsg script produced