antonson@software.org (Todd Antonson) (02/26/90)
Hello, I was wondering if anybody could tell me where to get the manuals for mh. Particularly the following: - The RAND MH Message Handling System: User's Manual - The RAND MH Message Handling System: Tutorial - MH.5 How to Process 200 Messages a Day and Stil Get Some Real Work Done Thanks for any info. ========================================================================== Todd S. Antonson | Software Productivity Consortium |CSNET: antonson@software.org SPC Building -- 2214 Rock Hill Road |UUCP : ..!uunet!software!antonson Herndon, Virginia 22070 | ==========================================================================
jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine) (02/27/90)
antonson@software.org (Todd Antonson) writes: >Hello, I was wondering if anybody could tell me where to get the >manuals for mh. Particularly the following: Well, If you got a tape from UCI, you should have gotten one hardcopy of the manuals. Look in your mh-6.6/ source tree, and you'll fine the tutorial and "realwork" paper in the papers/ directory. The manual itself is in the doc directory in [nt]roff format. The realwork paper was also part of the June 1985 USENIX (Portland, Oregon) conference proceedings. If you can't generate hardcopy of these manuals yourself, you'll have to order the distribution from us. Sorry, I can't supply printed copies alone. MH 6.6 (This is a maintenance release of MH 6.5.) There are a lot of changes between MH.6 and MH 6.6; a lot of performance enhancements were made, there's also a lot of support for distributed mail (personal mail and bulletin bboards). 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) [sorry, no support for SYS3.] - 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. Bug reports (and fixes) are welcome, by the way. There are also two ARPA Internet discussion groups: MH-Users@ICS.UCI.EDU and MH-Workers@ICS.UCI.EDU (somewhat analogous in charter to Info-UNIX and UNIX-Wizards). There are two ways to get a distribution: 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-6.6.tar.Z. This is a tar image after being run through the compress program (approx 1.5MB). 2. You can send $75 to the address below. This covers the cost of a 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 should be made payable to Regents of the University of California and must be drawn on U.S. funds. It's also a good idea (though not mandatory) to send a computer mail message to "Bug-MH@ICS.UCI.EDU" when you send your check via USPS to ensure minimal turn-around time. The distribution address is: Support Group Attn: MH distribution Department of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92717 714/856-7553 Sadly, if you just want the hard-copies of the documentation, you still have to pay the $75.00. The tar image has the documentation source (the manual is in roff format, but the rest are in TeX format). /JLR -- John Romine