Hi Ken, > Well, I just looked; Jerry Peek's original MH book is now under the > GPL. So we can crib from that I think, as long as proper attribution > is given. I am not aware of others? There's the original RAND/UCI > documentation as well, but I don't know how relevant that is.
It was the RAND MH paper on processing 200 messages a day where I first learnt of MH. That made it attractive compared to the mail(1) alternative. And after that I read Peek's good book. I found the former on http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/historical-docs.html, but the links I tried say the FTP server doesn't like the directory, e.g. ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/doc/realwork.ps But I think a new man page, nmh-intro(7)?, aimed at today's users would be the way to go. Start with the minimal .mh_profile configuration. Then show the shell prompt and command entered with the output for a small example account. (Perhaps even provide the couple of folders and emails for them to play with?) Intersperse a little commentary. Perhaps use ed(1) and its POSIX -p option for the editing. Or just show the end result of editing. Assume modern needs, MIME, e.g. don't explain forw(1) without -mime, as this is just a high-level overview to give them a taster for whether they want to invest time in it. However, I would put across that scan `pick -list -sequence lp -from foo` is normally shortened by one's own ~/bin scripts so they realise it's not all long-winded. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
