joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) (04/19/91)
Archive-name: mail/readers/wmail/1991-04-18 Archive: vax.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de:minix/net/wmail-3.63+.tar.Z [134.95.64.1] Original-posting-by: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) Original-subject: A guide to port WMAIL 3.63 to Coherent Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) Hi, Someone told me that he has problems to port WMAIL 3.63 to COherent. WMAIL 3.63 is a mailx-clone, very good and I used it for several weeks for mailing. In the mean time I'm back again on my 386/ix with ELM and sendmail but everyone who works with Coherent should have WMAIL. I was told it is available by FTP from plains.nodak.edu. The most difficult problem is to unshar the sources but that should be solvable. You need: the unshared files, about 20 minutes time (depends on how fast you can use your editor) File wmail.h: ------------- add the following line: #define off_t long delete all stuff between: #ifdef MSDOS ... ... #endif MSDOS write a macro called _PROTOTYPE #define _PROTOTYPE( function, params ) function () (I never tried that but it should work) or be too lazy to think and edit the function prototyping as I did: Example: (I was told that this is the most difficult problem) -------- old code: _PROTOTYPE ( void clr_exit, (int num) ); new code: void clr_exit (); ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Makefile: --------- use the Makefile supplied for standard unix. add -lndir ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ???.c: ------ delete all #include-lines with unknown Headerfiles (unistd.h,stdlib.h) add/delete sys/ in these lines where needed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wmmain.c: --------- replace function getcwd with getwd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ make make install ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I hope that I didn't forget something Nevertheless I will try to get WMAIL 3.63/Coherent ftped to piggy, I think in about 10 days to two weeks it should be there. Joachim +---------------------------------------+-------+-------------------+-------+ | Joachim Riedel | @ @ | Don't worry, | @ @ | | Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 48 | \_/ | keep smiling | \_/ | | D-6050 Offenbach am Main +-------+-------------------+-------+ | Tel. +49 69 85 62 25 | joachim@jrix.radig.de | +---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ -- comp.archives file verification vax.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de -rw-r--r-- 1 5027 2010 60865 Dec 10 23:29 minix/net/wmail-3.63+.tar.Z found wmail ok vax.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de:minix/net/wmail-3.63+.tar.Z