This archive, ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/, is not being maintained. Here's an announcement of the new archive location: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jerry Peek To: nmh-workers@nongnu.org, mh-e-announce@lists.sourceforge.net, bug-mailutils@gnu.org, comp.mail.mh Cc: rand-mh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Announcing MH at SourceForge and update to MH book Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:09:59 -0700 Message-ID: <25074.1149188999@pyry.gw.com> Last summer, Bill Wohler, John Romine, and I decided that MH's existence at the University of California, Irvine, had become tenuous since John left UCI's ICS department. We decided to move the MH archive and book to SourceForge. MH's new home is http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/. (We couldn't get just "mh" because SourceForge won't allow names that short.) Bill has done most of the moving and reorganizing... thanks, Bill! ------ THE BOOK: is now at http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/. Bill took this opportunity to rework the look and feel and navigation. Now that most of us don't have slow Internet access, there's a single large table of contents (on the book's home page) and a single index. There's also a Google site search (though it may be a month or two before all of the pages have been spidered). If you want to contribute, please join rand-mh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net [1]. One of us can make you a developer. It would be great for one of the MH mailutils developers to embellish the book if necessary. Another idea that was floated was to convert the HTML to a wiki to make it even easier for folks to contribute. If anyone knows how to do that automatically, please start a conversation on rand-mh-devel. ------- THE MH ARCHIVE: Bill also tried to make sense of the entropic pile of files at UCI and to repack them at SourceForge. These files were split into 5 packages: Archives, Contributed Software, Documentation, MH, and MH Book [2]. Nearly everything was preserved; only very obvious trash was discarded. (The old files are all still on ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/ and on http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/ -- although the book pages now all point to the SourceForge server.) * The Archives package contains tarballs of files that didn't fit anywhere else. For example, there is a tarball for scripts, a tarball for each year of the mh-users mailing list, and various files that were lying about the hierarchy. Even the environment files were saved in an env release. * The Contributed Software package contains a tarball of the contrib directory. * The Documentation package contains a tarball of the doc directory. * The MH package contains the various releases that were scattered about the hierarchy starting with version 5 released in 1985! If you look carefully, you'll note that some releases have more than a single tarball. They may include patches to various systems that were found and associated with that particular release. Bill also downloaded all the patches from [3] and tarred them together into mh-6.8.3-patches.tgz and included it in the 6.8.3 release. * Finally, the MH Book package contains tarballs of the various book releases. For example, the 200605 release is a snapshot of what you see at http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/ The usual SourceForge features (Bugs, Support Requests, Patches, Feature Requests) are active. If you have a general question about the archive that you think others might have, please submit a Support Request so that it is visible. Don't submit bug reports on MH itself ;-). Do submit bug reports, feature requests, and especially patches for the MH book. (For example, its coverage of nmh is pretty far out of date.) Even better, become a developer and make the changes yourself! Enjoy... Jerry (with "ghost writer" Bill :) 0. http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/ 0. http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/ 0. http://sourceforge.net/projects/rand-mh/ 1. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rand-mh-devel 2. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143658 3. ftp://ftp.gw.com/pub/unix/mail/mh/patches/