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From: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Using the %(friendly{}) format
Message-ID: <2609108A.1513@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 90 17:51:06 GMT
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Reply-To: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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ziegast@egypt (Eric Ziegast) writes:
>version: MH 6.6.5 #4[UCI] (frob) of Fri Mar 9 23:08:52 EST 1990

Eric is running a beta-test version of MH-6.6.5, his version works
differently than the standard release.  And, no, I don't need any
more beta-sites since the testing is almost over.  When you post an
answer about how to do something with MH, be sure to tell what release
you're running.

>Now that I think about it, maybe I should have compiled it with
>BSD43. In fact, I may just recompile it.

If you're using a 4.3BSD system, then yes, you should use BSD43.
Some of the characteristics of such systems are that openlog(3)
takes three arguments instead of two, and write(1) is sgid-tty.

>Anyone know specifically what NETWORK, TTYD, BSD43, and DUMB do?
>MH-GEN is not to clear on it.

Yes.  It's not clear about "NETWORK" (i.e., it isn't mentioned),
because that's used internally and should not be defined in the config
file.  TTYD enables the UCI TTYD package, which didn't make it much
farther than here.  If you don't know what TTYD is or don't have it,
you don't want to enable TTYD.  DUMB keep's MH's address parser
enabled, but prevents MH from trying to make addresses canonical.

>And how does one use the UCI option's $HOME/.signature files?

Probably you should just use the "Signature:" profile entry.  This is
something we have for backward compatibility, and it conflicts with
the News interpretation of .signature.
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John Romine