mh@beanie.ICS.UCI.EDU (John Romine) (04/13/90)
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 version 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 shipping. 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 documentation, 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.
Updates from MH 6.6
If you presently have MH 6.6, and are not in a position to ftp the
new release, watch "comp.sources.bugs". I will be posting a set
of patches to update an unmodified MH 6.6 release to MH 6.7. If
you've made changes to your release, you'll probably have to merge
them in by hand, after applying the patches to an original release.
/JLR