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From: matt@ra-box.wtfd.orst.edu (Matt Curfman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] ftime, Elm, Pine...
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Date: 24 Nov 92 06:05:30 GMT
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In article <1992Nov24.093218.227@otago.ac.nz> david@otago.ac.nz (David Harris) writes:
>Has anyone written an ftime() suitable for use with 386bsd? If so, would
>he/she mind mailing it to me?
>
>Also, has anyone ported elm or pine to 386bsd? The Elm 2.4 distribution
>dies with a syntax error at line 1455 of Configure, and I'm not enough of a
>sh wizard to be able to work out the problem...
>
>Cheers!
>
>-- David --
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>-- David Harris --                              email: david@otago.ac.nz
>Consultant, Computing Services Centre,          phone: (+64) 3-4798598
>Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand.         fax:   (+64) 3-4798577

I have ported Pine to run under 386bsd.  I can whip together some diffs if
interested.  There were no major snags at all, if I remember correctly.

I sure wish I could figure out how to port MH- it appears to do a lot of
ugies with the FILE structure.

-Matt Curfman
matt@ra-box.wtfd.orst.edu