Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Ease (sendmail.cf high level language) and A/UX Message-ID: Date: 26 Feb 91 14:56:25 GMT Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 34 I have recently posted Ease version 3.0 to alt.sources. If you include Patch #1, it works fine on A/UX. Ease is a high level language for sendmail. You can convert sendmail into ease on A/UX using: cfc -i -C UNI sendmail.ease To compile ease back into sendmail, use et sendmail.cf Ease does not replace sendmail. It augments sendmail by eliminating the need to learn an obscure syntax. In the testing, I noticed some bugs: Make has the well known error of using the value of the environment variable SHELL to run scripts. I had to add the line SHELL=/bin/sh to the Makefile. The A/UX install is not compatible with any other version of install I have ever used. I really don't understand why Apple would break a common Unix utility. The simple install file directory command does not work with A/UX. Can someone explain to me the reason? -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett