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From: aat@j.cc.purdue.edu (Jeff Smith)
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Subject: Re: can YOU help me with sendmail?
Message-ID: <2399@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 11:09:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 24 11:09:33 1986
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Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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Keywords: ease, easy
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In article <194@einode.UUCP> simon@einode.UUCP (Simon Kenyon) writes:
>i am putting together a document describing sendmail configuration files and
>how to generate them.

James Schoner (formerly of Purdue University Computing Center)
developed a preprocessor called "ease" which accepts the ease language
and produces sendmail configuration files as output.  Advantages of the
ease language include (but are not limited to) long variable names, a
more structured language with function calls, if statements, for loops,
/lib/cpp preprocessing of ease files, etc.  The readability of an ease
file is a big improvement over sendmail cf files.

Ease is available as a compressed tar image by ftp'ing to
j.cc.purdue.edu and logging in as anonymous/guest.  It's in
/usr/ftp/pub/ease.tar.Z.  If you don't have compress for some reason,
it's in /usr/ftp/pub too.  If you can't ftp to j.cc.purdue.edu,
write "ksb@j.cc.purdue.edu" and we'll try to make other arrangements
for you to get it.

Also, see the Jan./Feb. issue of ;login: (Vol. 11, #1) for the original
paper on ease.

Jeff Smith

Unix systems administrator, Purdue University Computing Center
aat@j.cc.purdue.edu ee.ecn.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!aat
Purdue University, 210 Math-Science, W. Lafayette, IN 47907, 317/494-7954