Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh User's Manual?

2012-02-29 Thread Tethys
David Levine writes: The old docs, ps converted to pdf, are now in docs/historical/ I notice we've also got plain text and PDF versions of Rose/Romine's How to process 200 messages a day and still get some real work done paper in there too. It might be worth grabbing the TeX source while it's

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh User's Manual?

2012-02-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:49:08 GMT, Tethys said: PS. That was the paper that introduced me to the world of MH, some time in the late '80s. At the time, 200 messages a day was an inconceivably huge number. At the peak of the spam problem a few years ago, I was getting over

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh User's Manual?

2012-02-29 Thread Ken Hornstein
as Paul implied, troff input is perfectly usable, very much more so than MSWurd or the Prodigal Data Format I've got nothing against bringing in the original troff input; it's just that what's in the MH 6.8 sources isn't exactly pure troff. It's got to be run through the build system to get rid

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh User's Manual?

2012-02-29 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-02-29, at 11:26 AM, Ken Hornstein wrote: I've got nothing against bringing in the original troff input; it's just that what's in the MH 6.8 sources isn't exactly pure troff. It's got to be run through the build system to get rid of all the @BEGIN@/@END@ pairs (and I'm not even sure

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh User's Manual?

2012-02-29 Thread Mike O'Dell
as Paul implied, troff input is perfectly usable, very much more so than MSWurd or the Prodigal Data Format -mo ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh User's Manual?

2012-02-29 Thread Paul Vixie
On 2/29/2012 7:26 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote: It's got to be run through the build system to get rid of all the @BEGIN@/@END@ pairs (and I'm not even sure what definitions we should use to do that). Someone has to do that grunt work ... and I haven't heard anyone volunteer for that just yet. all

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh User's Manual?

2012-02-29 Thread David Levine
I found a goldmine: the MH 6.8.5 tar ball contains RCS files for all of the source code. And it contains the sources for all of the documentation. I currently have it staged for addition at docs/historical/mh-6.8.5/ Before committing, is there a way to not include the contents of each file in

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh User's Manual?

2012-02-29 Thread Ken Hornstein
I found a goldmine: the MH 6.8.5 tar ball contains RCS files for all of the source code. And it contains the sources for all of the documentation. I currently have it staged for addition at docs/historical/mh-6.8.5/ Before committing, is there a way to not include the contents of each file in

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh User's Manual?

2012-02-29 Thread David Levine
Lyndon wrote: On 2012-02-29, at 11:26 AM, Ken Hornstein wrote: I've got nothing against bringing in the original troff input; it's just that what's in the MH 6.8 sources isn't exactly pure troff. It's got to be run through the build system to get rid of all the @BEGIN@/@END@ pairs (and

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh User's Manual?

2012-02-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:53:47PM -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote: Looks like the MH User's Manual. I found a copy here: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/mail/mh/doc/MH.ps.gz Hm. Can people actually view this? I tried printing it out and it died with a PostScript error. I tried opening it on my Mac

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh User's Manual?

2012-02-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 06:50:13PM -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote: I found a goldmine: the MH 6.8.5 tar ball contains RCS files for all of the source code. And it contains the sources for all of the documentation. I currently have it staged for addition at docs/historical/mh-6.8.5/ Before