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- This tar archive contains the lex sources and the binary executable of a filter
- that converts the .mailrc alias format to the format used by NeXT Mail in the
- file that is usually located in ~/.NeXT/.mailalias (one for every user, of
- course), so that you can use your old unix addresses in NeXT Mail.
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- DISCLAIMER: everything is provided AS IS, and I will not consider myself
- responsible for whatever could happen if you follow my instructions (so imagine
- if you dont follow them :-) ).
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- If you are not frightened by the disclaimer, anyway, here is how to proceed.
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- 1) save your original .mailalias file, just in case you have some new addresses
- in NeXT Mail that were not in .mailrc
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- mv ~/.NeXT/.mailalias ~/.NeXT/.mailalias.old
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- 2) convert your .mailrc
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- cvt_mailrc
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- 3) quit NeXT Mail if it is running and re-run it... try Send Addresses and enjoy!!!!
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- 4) if you have some new addresses and groups in NeXT Mail that were not in
- .mailrc, edit ~/.NeXT/.mailalias and ~/.NeXT/.mailalias.old, and add them
- (by hand, I'm sorry :-) from ~/.NeXT/.mailalias.old to ~/.NeXT/.mailalias,
- remembering that the user addresses must all be put in the group
- Private Users: following the preceding ones and WITHOUT newlines.
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- 5) A NeXT interface (as a service in the Mail menu) will come out as soon as I can
- get some documentation on the 2.0 version of NeXTStep, allowing me to do something
- smarter than reverse-engineering when programming with the GUI.
-
- --Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr>
-
- Dipartimento di Informatica LIENS
- Universita' di Pisa Ecole Normale Superieure
- Corso Italia, 40 45, Rue d'Ulm
- Pisa ITALY Paris FRANCE
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