Hi, I am a long time user of MH (since 1986) and mh-e (since 1992) + am working on a dual-boot toy (... I mean computer) at home that has a completely uniform interface no matter what side you are on. Cygwin is essential to this + I thank Earl Hood for porting nmh to that side of things. Now I am in the embarrassing situation of having MH work better in Windows on the shared vfat partition than LINUX side of things (Debian testing distribution). It seems as though MH is very sophisticated when it moves files around + uses hard links (essentially mucking directly with the filesystem). Earl (or the cygwin primitives he relied on) must have found a way to turn this off. I was wondering if there was any plan to implement this in the UNIX version if things.
I would be happy to play with the code myself, but I am having trouble getting it to compile (nmh-1.1-RC3.tar.gz) because of the gdbm problems. I used Debian's dselect to download the gdbm developement package (header files + libraries) + they get put directly in /usr/include as gdbm-ndbm.h and gdbm.h. I can get a little further on the compile if I make a directory and (soft) link ndbm.h -> /usr/include/gdbm-ndbm.h but it still fails since the version of libgdbm.a Debian provides has all the function names prepended with g (e.g. gdbm_open). Fixing this is more than I have time for right now, so I thought I'd bring it to your attention + see what the plans might be for VFAT support. Thanks! jpm ------------------------ Jeff Morgenthaler, Ph.D. NASA/GSFC Building 21 Room 018 National Research Council Fellow Code 681 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 jpmorgen at alum,mit,edu Phone: 301-286-0664 http://alum.mit.edu/www/jpmorgen FAX: 301-286-1753 _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
