taylor@hplabs.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) (01/10/88)
I'm in the middle of working on a new HP-Internal (keep reading, though) release of Elm -- currently numbered 2.0 -- and would be interested in hearing about any patches people have applied to the software since the 1.5/1.7 release was shipped (especially for the 1.7 beta release). The main changes that I have made to the code are that it more consistently distinguishes between screen and line mode, but now offers all the functionality of the screen mode stuff when in, for example, batch mailing mode (e.g. "elm taylor@hplabs" now lets you add Expired: headers etc etc). Lots of other stuff has been cleaned up and fixed, but, alas, I don't recall what 1.5b/1.7 had in it, so I can't post a fuller summary of differences. Oh! I have completely rewritten all the documentation too. The work that I did, by the way, was to make Elm compatible with the X.400 European electronic mail protocol... The caveat above is that I imagine that if I can successfully rip out all the X.400-related modifications, I should be able to distributed this new version publicly. Hence my strong interest in making it as complete, portable and up-to-date as possible. I look forward to hearing from various Elm enthusiasts out there and hopefully can have something to release to comp.sources.unix (I'll also chat with Mr. Salz about release timings too) by the end of next month... From the corners of the Earth, -- Dave Taylor