doc startup behaviour; koshy@india.hp.com

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
index fd2ea40dd82..a6d92b0fc66 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: mail.1,v 1.9 1998/04/25 00:19:55 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: mail.1,v 1.10 1998/04/25 00:41:54 deraadt Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -115,6 +115,23 @@ Is equivalent to:
 .Pp
 .Dl mail -f /var/mail/user
 .El
+.Ss Startup actions
+At startup time
+.Nm mail 
+will execute commands in the system command files
+.Pa /usr/share/misc/mail.rc , 
+.Pa /usr/local/etc/mail.rc ,
+and
+.Pa /etc/mail.rc 
+in order unless explicitly told not to by using the
+.Fl n
+option.  Next, the commands in the users personal command file 
+.Pa ~/.mailrc 
+are executed.
+.Nm mail
+then examines its command line options to determine whether the user
+requested a new message to be sent or existing messages in a mailbox
+to be examined.
 .Ss Sending mail
 To send a message to one or more people,
 .Nm mail