jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine) (10/04/90)
In article <4084@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> sasaki@umbc3.umbc.edu (Jim Sasaki) writes: >From where can I ftp a copy of MH? Thanks. Here's the announcement: @(#)$Id: README.1ST,v 1.6 90/04/13 14:18:30 sources Exp $ I'm pleased to announce a new release of the UCI version of the RAND MH Message Handling System. The current release is MH 6.7 Patchlevel 0 There are few user-visible changes from MH 6.6. These changes are fully described in the document `papers/mh6.7/mh6.7.ms', which can be formatting using "[tn]roff -ms". Here are the details: - MH is in the public-domain - MH runs on a number of versions of UNIX (4.[123]BSD, V7, SYS5, and related variants, e.g., HPUX) - MH runs on top of a number of mail transport systems (MMDF-{I,II}, SendMail, stand-alone (with UUCP support)) Although MH is not "supported" per se, it does have a bug-reporting address, Bug-MH@ICS.UCI.EDU (ucbvax!ucivax!bug-mh). Bug reports (and fixes) are welcome, by the way. There are also two Internet discussion groups: MH-Users@ICS.UCI.EDU and MH-Workers@ICS.UCI.EDU. MH-Users is bi-directionally gatewayed to USENET as comp.mail.mh. There are two ways to get the latest release: 1. If you can FTP to the ARPA Internet, use anonymous FTP to ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1] and retrieve the file pub/mh/mh-6.7.tar.Z. This is a tar image after being run through the compress program (approximately 1.5MB). There should also be a README file in that directory which tells what the current release of MH is, and how to get updates. This tar file is also available on louie.udel.edu [128.175.1.3] in portal/mh-6.7.tar.Z. You may also find MH on various other hosts; to make sure you get the latest ver- sion and don't waste your time re-fixing bugs, it's best to get it from either ics.uci.edu or louie.udel.edu. 2. You can send $75 US to the address below. This covers the cost of a 6250 BPI 9-track magtape, handling, and ship- ping. In addition, you'll get a laser-printed hard-copy of the entire MH documentation set. Be sure to include your USPS address with your check. Checks must be drawn on U.S. funds and should be made payable to: Regents of the University of California The distribution address is: Computing Support Group Attn: MH distribution Department of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92717 714/856-7554 Sadly, if you just want the hard-copies of the documenta- tion, you still have to pay the $75. The tar image has the documentation source (the manual is in roff format, but the rest are in TeX format). Postscript formatted versions of the TeX papers are available, as are crude tty-conversions of those papers. If you're using ftp, in pub/mh you'll find the following: DISTRIBUTION mh-6.7.tar.Z A tar of the MH 6.7 distribution after being run through compress. Be sure to use binary mode with FTP. DOCUMENTATION mh-6.7.CHANGES A formatted document describing the changes made from MH 6.6 to MH 6.7. If you're retrieving MH using FTP, you won't get hardcopies of the documentation set. Some MH papers are designed to be formatted with the TeX typesetting system. For those sites who do not have access to TeX, these papers have been converted to postscript. For sites without a laser printer, crude tty-conversions of these papers are also available: papers-ps/*.Z Postscript conversions of the MH papers. papers-tty.tar.Z TTY/LP-conversions of the MH papers. UPDATES update-6.6.tar.Z Updates to MH 6.6 to bring it up to MH 6.7. These will apply without errors to an unmodified MH 6.6 source tree. Since you can FTP you probably just want to get mh-6.7.tar.Z, but you might want to apply these patches to your MH 6.6 source tree and diff that against the MH 6.7 tree to look for local changes. update-6.7/* Files will appear here as updates to MH 6.7 become available. /JLR -- John Romine