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- VMAILTOOL V1.15
- James T. Perkins
- 11 March 1991
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- Vmailtool is a graphical mail interface for Sun workstations. It is
- based on vmail, the MH mail system, tooltool, and Sunview (or
- OpenWindows). If you do not have all of these installed on your Sun
- workstation, it is useless to you.
-
- Vmailtool is a tooltool "wrapper" around the curses-based vmail mail
- editor, and provides mouse support and buttons to push for vmail, making
- the use of vmail much faster and easier -- you don't have to remember
- all the keys for the commands. It provides a neato mail icon with a
- flag that pops up and down when you recieve mail. Using the mouse to
- select a message for viewing is a lot faster than cursor movement keys,
- and vmailtool remembers argument strings which you want to pass on to
- comp, forw, and repl.
-
- Vmailtool V1.4 and later (including V1.15) is based on a modified
- version of vmail, which has new commands for rescanning and sorting the
- mail folder, and for disting and bursting mail items.
-
- Vmailtool does have some minor problems, which are listed in the man
- page. Nonetheless, vmailtool has proved a useful and helpful tool.
-
- I offer vmailtool to the user community without any strings attached.
- If you think of a bugfix or enhancement, please let me know via email.
-
- James Perkins
- jamesp@metolius.wr.tek.com
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-
- INSTALLATION NOTES
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- To install vmailtool will require a little effort. First decide on the
- following directories:
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- BINDIR - where the installed shell scripts will live
- MANDIR - where the installed man page will live
- ICONDIR - where the installed icons will live
-
- Edit the makefile and change the BINDIR, MANDIR, and ICONDIR parameter
- definitions.
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- Edit the vmailtool shell script cand change the definitions of:
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- VMAILICON - to reflect BINDIR
- ICON_UP - to reflect ICONDIR
- ICON_DOWN - to reflect ICONDIR
- ICON_LEFT - to reflect ICONDIR
- ICON_RIGHT - to reflect ICONDIR
-
- Edit the man page to update the new locations of vmailicon.
-
- Edit vmailicon and make sure that the control characters got through
- unmolested. There should be a line that reads:
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- echo -n "<ESC>]I${icon}<ESC>\\" >/dev/tty &
-
- Where <ESC> means an ASCII escape character.
-
- Type `make install' to install vmailtool, vmailicon, the icons, and
- vmailtool.1. Make sure the permissions on vmailtool and vmailicon are
- 755 (read, execute by all, write by owner only), and 644 on the icons
- and manpage (read by all, write by owner only).
-
- James
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