Updated documentation and comments about sendmail/pipe.

[nmh] / docs / historical / README

diff --git a/docs/historical/README b/docs/historical/README
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--- a/docs/historical/README
+++ b/docs/historical/README
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
+This directory
+--------------
 The most recent versions of the documents in this directory were
 downloaded from ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/mail/mh/doc/
 
+Identical versions are available at
+http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/rand-mh/Documentation/1.0/MH-doc.tgz
+
 These older versions:
   ADMIN-19910201.txt
   MH-19910201.txt
@@ -11,14 +16,64 @@ were downloaded from ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/mh/doc/
 designOfMH.pdf was downloaded from
 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA257836
 
+
+Subdirectories
+--------------
+SRI-NOSC/ was downloaded from from Warren Toomey's minnie.tuhs.org using:
+  rsync -avz minnie.tuhs.org::UA_Distributions/Early_Networking/NOSC/ NOSC
+  tar xzBpf NOSC/nosc.tar.gz ./mh
+  cp -p NOSC/nosc.txt mh
+  chmod -R go+r mh
+  chmod go+x mh mh/subs.dir
+  find mh -name '*.[ao]' -execdir /bin/rm {} \;
+
+2.9BSD/ was downloaded from from Warren Toomey's minnie.tuhs.org using:
+  rsync -avz minnie.tuhs.org::UA_Distributions/UCB/2.9BSD/ 2.9BSD
+  tar xzBpf usr.tar.gz ./contrib/mh
+  chmod g-w contrib/mh/Makefile
+
+mh-jun-1982/ was downloaded from
+http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/Rand/Rand_Software_Distribution_1.7_May82.zip
+
+mh-nov-1983/ was downloaded from
+http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/4.2BSD/new.tar.gz
+
+Other versions of MH are, as of May 2019, available at these locations:
+mh-6.4              http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/4.3BSD/new.tar.gz
+mh-6.5/             http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/tcdmh-6.5.tar.gz
+mh-6.5-4.3BSD-Tahoe http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/4.3BSD-Tahoe/new.tar.gz
+mh-6.5-4.3BSD-Reno  http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/4.3BSD-Reno/contrib.tar.gz
+mh-6.6/             http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/tcdmh-6.6.tar.gz
+mh-6.8              https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/source/src-7.7/third/supported/mh.6.8/
+mh-6.8.3/           http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/tcdmh-6.8.3.tar.gz
+
+mh-6.8.5/ contains the entire MH 6.8.5 sources and RCS files, and was
+downloaded from
+http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/rand-mh/MH/6.8.5/mh-6.8.5.tgz
+Some obviously unnecessary files were removed.  mh.rf and mh.me were
+renamed to mh-intro.rf and mh-intro.me, respectively, to avoid name
+clashes with other files on case-insensitive file systems.
+
+
+Other repositories
+------------------
+MH source code, versions 5 through 6.8.5, is archived under
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/rand-mh/files/
+That repository contains other useful MH artifacts including
+the Jerry Peek's MH Book and mailing list archives.
+
+
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+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 The README below is retained in its original form for posterity.  All
 of the txt (.doc and .tty) files have been renamed to .txt.  All of
 the postscript (.ps) files have been converted to pdf using ps2pdf.
 
 D. Levine  28 Feb 2012
 
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 mh/doc/README
 
@@ -38,7 +93,7 @@ Postscript versions are also available:
   changes.ps   - Changes from MH 6.6 to MH 6.8
   mh-gen.ps    - The "READ-ME" file - how to generate MH (aka mh-gen(8))
 
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 These are postscript conversions of the MH papers which were written
 using the TeX typesetting language:
@@ -67,7 +122,7 @@ intosh, and printing them on a Laserwriter.  If you are able to generate
 copies of these papers which will print (identically to the originals or
 otherwise) on a Laserwriter, please contact "Bug-MH@ICS.UCI.EDU".
 
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 These files are tty-readable conversions of the MH papers which were
 written using the TeX typesetting language: