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From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: MH 6.7.2 [UCI] ported to 386bsd
Date: 16 Dec 1992 04:26:51 GMT
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Chris G. Demetriou (cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
: i've managed to do a port of MH 6.7.2 [UCI] to 386bsd 0.1.
There's just been released a 6.8, which includes MIME support...
--Ed
announcement follows, sorry the mimeliness of the msg is broken
From: mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us (Marshall Rose)
Newsgroups: info.ietf.smtp
Subject: Multi-media MH
Date: 15 Dec 92 09:02:24 GMT
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Many of you know that a MIME-capable version of MH has been in beta for
some months now. I am pleased to announce that the beta period has
ended and a new release of MH, including MIME support, is now available.
Below is the release information.
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From: mh@buckaroo.ICS.UCI.EDU (John Romine)
Subject: MH 6.8 release now available
Message-ID: <5415.724459350@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:42:45 GMT
To: mh-users@ics.uci.edu
I'm pleased to announce a new release of the UCI version of
the RAND MH Message Handling System. The current release is
MH 6.8
Here are the details:
- MH is in the public-domain
- MH runs on a number of versions of UNIX (4.[123]BSD, V7,
SYS5, and related variants, e.g., SVR4, HPUX)
- MH runs on top of a number of mail transport systems
(MMDF-{I,II}, SendMail, stand-alone (with UUCP support))
Although MH is not "supported" per se, it does have a
bug-reporting address, Bug-MH@ICS.UCI.EDU (ucbvax!ucivax!bug-mh).
Bug reports (and fixes) are welcome, by the way. There are also
two Internet discussion groups: MH-Users@ICS.UCI.EDU and
MH-Workers@ICS.UCI.EDU. MH-Users is bi-directionally gatewayed
to USENET as comp.mail.mh.
CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE
There are quite a few changes in this release. Of particular
note: MH can now handle multi-media (MIME) messages. I will
post the entire MH changes document separately.
HOW TO GET MH
There are two ways to get the latest release:
1. If you can FTP to the ARPA Internet, use anonymous FTP
to ftp.ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1] and retrieve the file
pub/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z. This is a tar image after being run
through the compress program (approximately 1.8MB). There
should also be a README file in that directory which tells
what the current release of MH is, and how to get updates.
This tar file is also available on louie.udel.edu
[128.175.1.3] in portal/mh-6.8.tar.Z. You may also find MH
on various other hosts; to make sure you get the latest ver-
sion and don't waste your time re-fixing bugs, it's best to
get it from either ftp.ics.uci.edu or louie.udel.edu.
The usual FTP mirror sites (uunet, etc.) should have MH 6.8
available within a few days.
2. You can send $75 US to the address below. This covers
the cost of a 6250 BPI 9-track magtape, handling, and ship-
ping. In addition, you'll get a laser-printed hard-copy of
the entire MH documentation set. Be sure to include your
USPS address with your check. Checks must be drawn on U.S.
funds and should be made payable to:
Regents of the University of California
The distribution address is:
Univeristy of California at Irvine
Office of Academic Computing
360 Computer Science
Irvine, CA 92717 USA
+1 714 856 5153
Sadly, if you just want the hard-copies of the documenta-
tion, you still have to pay the $75. The tar image has the
documentation source (the manual is in roff format, but the
rest are in TeX format). Postscript formatted versions of
the TeX papers are available, as are crude tty-conversions
of those papers.
UPDATES
The updates from MH 6.7.2 to MH 6.8 are quite large (about
1.5Mb uncompressed). I'm still considering how to make them
available. More details will follow
CORRESPONDENCE
As always, please send any bug reports or comments about MH to
the address "bug-mh@ics.uci.edu" (...ucbvax!ucivax!bug-mh).
/JLR
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