bob@cmpfen.UUCP (Bob Breum) (12/20/88)
I'm a new owner of a used 7300. I noticed that mailx and the *roff family
are missing from this machine. Is this because AT&T expected you to buy their
Electronic Mail and Documentation Preparation packages to get those?
I've used elm on my friend's Ultrix machine, and liked it. When the new
2.1 distribution came over the net, I thought that it would be a nice substit-
ute for /usr/bin/mail. Well, the author used a bunch of >8 character identi-
fiers which results in all sorts of conflicts when I try to compile it. Has
anybody ported elm to the UNIX-PC in the past? Does anyone plan to port this
version?
Thanks for your input.
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+1 407 322-3222 "C is the new BASIC"todd@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day) (12/22/88)
In article <368@cmpfen.UUCP> bob@cmpfen.UUCP (Bob Breum) writes:
~ I'm a new owner of a used 7300. I noticed that mailx and the *roff family
~are missing from this machine. Is this because AT&T expected you to buy their
~Electronic Mail and Documentation Preparation packages to get those?
mailx is not in the Electronic Mail distribution. nroff, but not troff, is in
the Documentation Preparation package.
~ I've used elm on my friend's Ultrix machine, and liked it. When the new
~2.1 distribution came over the net, I thought that it would be a nice substit-
~ute for /usr/bin/mail. Well, the author used a bunch of >8 character identi-
~fiers which results in all sorts of conflicts when I try to compile it. Has
~anybody ported elm to the UNIX-PC in the past? Does anyone plan to port this
~version?
I had no problem compiling it. The install script works pretty well. But,
I thought that the UNIXPC has never had a problem with >8 char identifiers.
I thought it could take up to 16 and possible 32 char identifiers. At least,
I've never run across ANY conflicts when compiling any of the freeware that
comes over the net.
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