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- mh/doc/README
-
- These are formatted versions of the major MH documents (written
- using the troff "-ms" and "-me" macro packages). The ".doc" files
- are formatted for 66 lines/page:
-
- ADMIN.doc - The MH Administrator's Manual - how to configure MH
- MH.doc - The MH User's Manual
- changes.doc - Changes from MH 6.6 to MH 6.8
- mh-gen.doc - The "READ-ME" file - how to generate MH (aka mh-gen(8))
-
- Postscript versions are also available:
-
- ADMIN.ps - The MH Administrator's Manual - how to configure MH
- MH.ps - The MH User's Manual
- 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:
-
- bboards.ps - The UCI BBoards Facility
- beginners.ps - UCI MH for Beginners
- mh4mm.ps - MH for MM users
- mh6.ps - Changes from MH 6.0 to MH 6.5 for 4.3BSD
- multifarious.ps - MH: A Multifarious User Agen
- mznet.ps - MZnet - Mail Service for Personal Micro Comp. Sys.
- realwork.ps - MH.5 - How to process 200 messages...
- trusted.ps - Design of the TTI Prototype Trusted Mail Agent
- tutorial.ps - The MH Tutorial
-
- These conversions have been provided because they may be of use to some
- sites who retrieved MH using FTP, and who do not have TeX to typeset
- the papers themselves. Of course, all recipients of an MH distribution
- tape receive a complete set of laser-printed manuals.
-
- These conversions were generated with the "dvips" program. I have
- printed them on an Imagen 5320 w/ Turboscript, and the output is
- identical to the original "dvi" versions of these papers.
-
- As yet, I have had no success downloading the postscript files to a Mac-
- 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:
-
- bboards.tty - The UCI BBoards Facility
- beginners.tty - UCI MH for Beginners
- mh4mm.tty - MH for MM users
- mh6.tty - Changes from MH 6.0 to MH 6.5 for 4.3BSD
- multifarious.tty - MH: A Multifarious User Agen
- mznet.tty - MZnet - Mail Service for Personal Micro Comp. Sys.
- realwork.tty - MH.5 - How to process 200 messages...
- trusted.tty - Design of the TTI Prototype Trusted Mail Agent
- tutorial.tty - The MH Tutorial
-
- These conversions have been provided because they may be of use to some
- sites who retrieved MH using FTP, and who do not have TeX or a laser
- printer on which to print the papers. If you have a Postscript
- printer, you may want to retrieve the Postscript conversion of these
- papers, available in a different tar archive.
-
- Of course, all recipients of an MH distribution tape receive a complete
- set of laser-printed manuals, and these conversions are not a
- substitute for properly-formatted copies of the originals.
-
- The conversion was generated by the "dvi2tty" program. As full use of
- TeX's rich typesetting environment was used in writing many of these
- papers, and since the output is intended for a line printer, it is
- necessarily quite primitive.
-
- Font changes and special character representations are lost entirely.
- White-space between words may be deleted or expanded, especially near
- punctuation characters. Blank lines may be added or deleted.
-
- Since typeset lines are typically longer than 80 tty characters, the
- output has been generated for 132-colunm output devices. A typical
- page has about 76 lines. Pages are separated by a formfeed character.
-
- /JLR
-