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From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
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Subject: Re: messages, eatmail and other miscellany
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Date: 28 Nov 90 16:00:32 GMT
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 27-Nov-90 Re: messages, eatmail and
o.. Anthony A. Datri@ucsd.ed (388)

> >Why does eatmail require ATK on the spool machine?  I think that's
> >totally incorrect, actually.  It requires a few libraries (libmail,
> >liberrors, and libutil) but these can all be built without building ATK
> >at all.  -- Nathaniel

> I was considering the above to be part of ATK; forgive me if that wasn't
> correct.  Can the above be built without class or any dynamic-linking code?

Yes indeed.  I believe all you need to build are the
overhead/{errors,mail,util} trees.  You may need to build config, first,
actually.  But certainly no dynamic-linking stuff should be necessary.