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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: elm Date: 11 May 1996 19:57:59 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4n2rg7$1uq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4mvilq$6ln@adcmail.adc.com> <4n271v$25q@golden.pvrr.ru> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jareth@golden.pvrr.ru (Oleg 'Jareth' Basoff) wrote: > Michael A. Dorin (mad@adc.com) wrote: > : Forgive me if I am asking lots of silly questions. Can anybody give > : me the steps for getting elm running on my system? > > just run configure and follow instructions. ...or simply get the `port' for it. It comes pre-configured, so you don't even need to answer any questions. NB: the most common configuration error happens regarding the mailbox file locking. Select either fcntl _OR_ flock, but _DON'T_ select dot-style locking. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)