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   1 This directory
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   3 The most recent versions of the documents in this directory were
   4 downloaded from ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/mail/mh/doc/
   5
   6 Identical versions are available at
   7 http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/rand-mh/Documentation/1.0/MH-doc.tgz
   8
   9 These older versions:
  10   ADMIN-19910201.txt
  11   MH-19910201.txt
  12   MH-19921214.pdf
  13   MH-19921214.txt
  14 were downloaded from ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/mh/doc/
  15
  16 designOfMH.pdf was downloaded from
  17 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA257836
  18
  19
  20 Subdirectories
  21 --------------
  22 SRI-NOSC/ was downloaded from from Warren Toomey's minnie.tuhs.org using:
  23   rsync -avz minnie.tuhs.org::UA_Distributions/Early_Networking/NOSC/ NOSC
  24   tar xzBpf NOSC/nosc.tar.gz ./mh
  25   cp -p NOSC/nosc.txt mh
  26   chmod -R go+r mh
  27   chmod go+x mh mh/subs.dir
  28   find mh -name '*.[ao]' -execdir /bin/rm {} \;
  29
  30 2.9BSD/ was downloaded from from Warren Toomey's minnie.tuhs.org using:
  31   rsync -avz minnie.tuhs.org::UA_Distributions/UCB/2.9BSD/ 2.9BSD
  32   tar xzBpf usr.tar.gz ./contrib/mh
  33   chmod g-w contrib/mh/Makefile
  34
  35 mh-jun-1982/ was downloaded from
  36 http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/Rand/Rand_Software_Distribution_1.7_May82.zip
  37
  38 mh-nov-1983/ was downloaded from
  39 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/4.2BSD/new.tar.gz
  40
  41 Other versions of MH are, as of May 2019, available at these locations:
  42 mh-6.4              http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/4.3BSD/new.tar.gz
  43 mh-6.5-4.3BSD-Tahoe http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/4.3BSD-Tahoe/new.tar.gz
  44 mh-6.5-4.3BSD-Reno  http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/4.3BSD-Reno/contrib.tar.gz
  45 mh-6.8              https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/source/src-7.7/third/supported/mh.6.8/
  46
  47 mh-6.8.5/ contains the entire MH 6.8.5 sources and RCS files, and was
  48 downloaded from
  49 http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/rand-mh/MH/6.8.5/mh-6.8.5.tgz
  50 Some obviously unnecessary files were removed.  mh.rf and mh.me were
  51 renamed to mh-intro.rf and mh-intro.me, respectively, to avoid name
  52 clashes with other files on case-insensitive file systems.
  53
  54
  55 Other repositories
  56 ------------------
  57 MH source code, versions 5 through 6.8.5, is archived under
  58 http://sourceforge.net/projects/rand-mh/files/
  59 That repository contains other useful MH artifacts including
  60 the Jerry Peek's MH Book and mailing list archives.
  61
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  65
  66 The README below is retained in its original form for posterity.  All
  67 of the txt (.doc and .tty) files have been renamed to .txt.  All of
  68 the postscript (.ps) files have been converted to pdf using ps2pdf.
  69
  70 D. Levine  28 Feb 2012
  71
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  74
  75 mh/doc/README
  76
  77 These are formatted versions of the major MH documents (written
  78 using the troff "-ms" and "-me" macro packages).  The ".doc" files
  79 are formatted for 66 lines/page:
  80
  81   ADMIN.doc     - The MH Administrator's Manual - how to configure MH
  82   MH.doc        - The MH User's Manual
  83   changes.doc   - Changes from MH 6.6 to MH 6.8
  84   mh-gen.doc    - The "READ-ME" file - how to generate MH (aka mh-gen(8))
  85
  86 Postscript versions are also available:
  87
  88   ADMIN.ps      - The MH Administrator's Manual - how to configure MH
  89   MH.ps         - The MH User's Manual
  90   changes.ps    - Changes from MH 6.6 to MH 6.8
  91   mh-gen.ps     - The "READ-ME" file - how to generate MH (aka mh-gen(8))
  92
  93 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  94
  95 These are postscript conversions of the MH papers which were written
  96 using the TeX typesetting language:
  97
  98   bboards.ps            - The UCI BBoards Facility
  99   beginners.ps          - UCI MH for Beginners
 100   mh4mm.ps              - MH for MM users
 101   mh6.ps                - Changes from MH 6.0 to MH 6.5 for 4.3BSD
 102   multifarious.ps       - MH: A Multifarious User Agen
 103   mznet.ps              - MZnet - Mail Service for Personal Micro Comp. Sys.
 104   realwork.ps           - MH.5 - How to process 200 messages...
 105   trusted.ps            - Design of the TTI Prototype Trusted Mail Agent
 106   tutorial.ps           - The MH Tutorial
 107
 108 These conversions have been provided because they may be of use to some
 109 sites who retrieved MH using FTP, and who do not have TeX to typeset
 110 the papers themselves.  Of course, all recipients of an MH distribution
 111 tape receive a complete set of laser-printed manuals.
 112
 113 These conversions were generated with the "dvips" program.  I have
 114 printed them on an Imagen 5320 w/ Turboscript, and the output is
 115 identical to the original "dvi" versions of these papers.
 116
 117 As yet, I have had no success downloading the postscript files to a Mac-
 118 intosh, and printing them on a Laserwriter.  If you are able to generate
 119 copies of these papers which will print (identically to the originals or
 120 otherwise) on a Laserwriter, please contact "Bug-MH@ICS.UCI.EDU".
 121
 122 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 123
 124 These files are tty-readable conversions of the MH papers which were
 125 written using the TeX typesetting language:
 126
 127   bboards.tty           - The UCI BBoards Facility
 128   beginners.tty         - UCI MH for Beginners
 129   mh4mm.tty             - MH for MM users
 130   mh6.tty               - Changes from MH 6.0 to MH 6.5 for 4.3BSD
 131   multifarious.tty      - MH: A Multifarious User Agen
 132   mznet.tty             - MZnet - Mail Service for Personal Micro Comp. Sys.
 133   realwork.tty          - MH.5 - How to process 200 messages...
 134   trusted.tty           - Design of the TTI Prototype Trusted Mail Agent
 135   tutorial.tty          - The MH Tutorial
 136
 137 These conversions have been provided because they may be of use to some
 138 sites who retrieved MH using FTP, and who do not have TeX or a laser
 139 printer on which to print the papers.  If you have a Postscript
 140 printer, you may want to retrieve the Postscript conversion of these
 141 papers, available in a different tar archive.
 142
 143 Of course, all recipients of an MH distribution tape receive a complete
 144 set of laser-printed manuals, and these conversions are not a
 145 substitute for properly-formatted copies of the originals.
 146
 147 The conversion was generated by the "dvi2tty" program.  As full use of
 148 TeX's rich typesetting environment was used in writing many of these
 149 papers, and since the output is intended for a line printer, it is
 150 necessarily quite primitive.
 151
 152 Font changes and special character representations are lost entirely.
 153 White-space between words may be deleted or expanded, especially near
 154 punctuation characters.  Blank lines may be added or deleted.
 155
 156 Since typeset lines are typically longer than 80 tty characters, the
 157 output has been generated for 132-colunm output devices.  A typical
 158 page has about 76 lines.  Pages are separated by a formfeed character.
 159
 160 /JLR