dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller) (10/17/89)
There is currently available version 5.7 of mush for DOS.
Yes, this is version FIVE-POINT-SEVEN. Even tho this is
a very old version of mush, it has the best performance
for the *minimally* stocked IBM-PC running DOS. There are
more recently versions available - including several incan-
tations of 6.0 (I think even 6.4). These versions do run
on dos, but you should probably have quite a bit more memory.
It runs just fine on OS/2.
NOTE and disclaimer: I did not do this port and will not
support it. The same goes for Bart Schaefer, I imagine :-).
Do not even attempt to send me mail about anything to do with
this code -- I haven't even looked at it. The entire port was
done by Mike O'Carroll <uunet!lena.uucp!moc> (lives and works
in England). He says he's been using 5.7 for years now and
he has sent me an "ARC" copy of the code. I don't have a new
enough version of ARC, so I can't even extract the files to
look at them.
Included with the "arc" archive are several binaries for those
folks who don't want to compile it themselves. Mush-dos talks
to UUPC -- an MTA for DOS that acts like uucp, I imagine. I
don't know where to get this; you'll have to do that yourself.
Mike is happy to support this, but he does not have access to
the newsgroups this message is being posted to as I understand
it. At any rate, you can ftp this version of mush from ucbvax.
ftp ucbvax
ftp> cd pub/mailers
ftp> binary
ftp> get mush-5.7.dos.arc
If you don't have uucp access, I can mail it to you, but judging
from the increbile flood of responses the last time I brought
this up, I am afraid it might take a while for you to get it in
the mail. If I can get a slot in comp.sources.misc, then I might
get it in there. Is there a source group for DOS sources?
If you want me to mail it to you, you will get in in split messages
containing the "arc" archive that's been converted to ascii via the
"btoa" program (the old/original version since it can read from
stdin :-). It's about 1M. Wait 4-6 days for delivery. Void where
prohibited. Ask your parents before calling. Prices includes tax,
title, doc, and registration fees. Children under 17 must be
accompanied by a parent or illegal alien.
Dan Heller <island!argv@sun.com>