gest_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Gavin Stark) (07/01/91)
Submitted to ab20 as incoming/amiga/amigamailer.lzh
(what follows is the readme)
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My K00L Mailer
The Amiga Visual Mailer for UUCP
Written 1991
by
Gavin Stark
This is a pre-release version of MKM, a visual mailer for the Amiga running
UUCP.
I am not yet sure of memory requirements but 1.5 meg should do fine. Here
are some other requirements:
A stack size of 40000 will ensure there are no stack problems.
The screens that are opened are 640 width by 400. The program uses
Commodore's Courier 13 point font. This is the best size I could find to
accomodate a 80 character message with a scroll bar. This limitation may be
removed in the future, but for now it is hard coded in.
Also, as a means of making this pre-release version slightly cripleware, and
due to my general laziness, the mailer allows only up to 50 mail messages,
10 sysaliases, and 100 aliases. This will be improved in a later version.
For now, if you attempt to read a mailbox with more than 50 messages you may
visit our old friend "the guru"...
Recursive aliases will be found, but no action to remedy the situation will
happen. (like removing the alias!)
This distribution lacks source code. There will, most likely, be a release
of the source. That is, when I think it is ready for release. (when comments
are added and some things are cleared up) When this is done, I hope to
submit the code to comp.sources.amiga and comp.binaries.amiga as well as the
Fred Fish collection.
Features I'd like to add (that NEED to be added):
- Better error handling.
- Horizontal Scrolling for long lines in a message
Here is a good warning:
DON'T LOAD FILES INTO MKM THAT YOU AREN'T SURE ARE MAILBOXES!!!!
If it is not a mailbox, MKM will read nothing out of it, and save a blank
file over it when it tries to save the mailbox. This can potentially be
dangerous!
Note: When AMYCRC is run on MKM this is the output:
Size: 70124 bytes CRC: DD43
If you are using AMYCRC and don't get this CRC then something is wrong. I don't
have any of the other CRC programs, sorry...
So try out MKM and let me know what you think. PLEASE send any comments or
bug reports to...
Snail Mail: Gavin Stark
P.O. Box 274073
Rochester, NY 14627
Internet: gest_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
UUCP: {...!uunet!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!gest_ltd}