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- README.DOS for MHonArc
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- Table of Contents:
- CONTENTS
- DOCUMENTATION
- INSTALLATION
- BUGS/COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS?
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- MHonArc -- Internet mail-to-HTML converter
- Copyright (C) 1995 Earl Hood, ehood@convex.com
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- (at your option) any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Notes to MS-DOS users:
-
- 1. IMPORTANT: You must preserve the subdirectory structure of the
- .zip archive when unzipping MHonArc. Use the -d option if you are
- using pkunzip.
-
- 2. All text files included in the distrubution (excluding files in the
- `bat' directory and this file) are in Unix format. I.e. Newlines
- are used to terminate end-of-lines. MS-DOS text files use
- return/newline pairs. Any text files that get installed via the
- `install.me' script will automatically get converted to DOS
- format.
-
- If you want to convert any other text file to MS-DOS style, the
- following one-line Perl script will do:
-
- perl -e "print <>;" text.unx >text.dos
-
- 3. File names mentioned in the MHonArc documentation are in Unix
- format. DOS names differ slightly. To translate mentally,
- first substitute \ for /. Then, within each directory component
- and the file name, ignore any characters beyond the eighth before
- a dot and ignore any characters beyond the third after a dot.
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- CONTENTS
-
- ACKNOWLG Thanks to people
- CHANGES Revision history of MHonArc
- COPYING GNU General Public License
- README Unix equivalent of README.DOS
- README.DOS The file you are reading
- RELNOTES Release notes for MHonArc (*READ*)
- TODO MHonArc "to do" list
- bat/ Batch files for MS-DOS users
- doc/ Documentation for MHonArc
- examples/ Example resource files for MHonArc
- extras/ Extra programs for use with MHonArc (See extras/README)
- install.me Installation program for MHonArc
- lib/ Libraries/MIME filters used by MHonArc
- logo/ Gifs of the MHonArc logo
- mhonarc* The MHonArc Perl program
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- ** PLEASE read RELNOTES before running MHonArc.
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- DOCUMENTATION
-
- Documentation for MHonArc is located in the doc/ directory.
-
- html:
- The main documentation for MHonArc is in multiple HTML files. Load
- mhonarc.html in the doc/ directory into your Web browser to get
- started.
-
- ascii:
- A plain text version of the documentation is in the single file
- mhonarc.txt. This file is created by converting the HTML files
- into ascii. See the Makefile in doc/ for how the conversion is
- done.
-
- manpage:
- For Unix users, there is a manpage in doc/ called mhonarc.1. It
- is not very fancy. It is automatically generated like the
- ascii version. The manpage does not follow the standard manpage
- style and is not intended to be printed via troff.
-
- The installation process does not deal with the manpage. If you
- want to install it, you must do it manually. The installation
- process does allow you to install the HTML documentation in a
- location of your choice.
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- INSTALLATION
-
- The documentation contains a section on installing MHonArc for Unix
- and MS-DOS machines. I recommend reading the Installation section as
- it contains more information then what is included here.
-
- Brief Instructions
-
- To install MHonArc, run the following command:
-
- % perl install.me
-
- The installation process will ask you a series of questions on
- where the Perl executable is and where to put MHonArc files. Just
- hit <CR> to accept the default values listed in ()'s.
-
- Notes on installation process:
-
- o The '#!' line in the installed mhonarc program is set to
- point to the Perl executable specified in the installation
- process (this has no meaning under MS-DOS).
-
- o The installed mhonarc program has code added so it will find
- its default libraries specified in the installation program.
- I.e. The install lib directory is added to mhonarc's search
- path so it will find its libraries.
-
- o If you specify paths that do not exist, the install.me
- program will create the path.
-
-
- ** PLEASE read RELNOTES before running MHonArc.
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- BUGS/COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS?
-
- If you have any bugs/comments/suggestions about MHonArc, check the
- Contacts section of the documentation for the proper person to
- contact.
-
- If it is a bug you are reporting, please include the following in
- your message:
-
- o Version of Perl (can be retrievied by "perl -v").
- o Version of the program in question.
- o The exact command-line used to invoke the program.
- o Error/diagnostic messages from the program.
- o Any other information that might prove useful.
-
- Before sending e-mail, make sure the documentation does not already
- have an answer to your question/problem.
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- Earl Hood, ehood@convex.com
-