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- From: olaf@oski.toppoint.de (Olaf Schlueter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
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- Subject: Re: how to install nn?
- References: <H.0DyDPW6UWvU@tokna.gold.sub.org> <1992Aug13.053705.5193@r-node.gts.org> <H.mjY3I7An&Dc@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> <1992Aug18.031954.14502@zooid.guild.org> <H.QfAo0u&vFPQ@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> <a6981673@skid.north.de> <H.UjJFyVrP2F2@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> <H.lBex463NjY6@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Message-ID: <9208242858@oski.toppoint.de>
- Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 23:10:04 MEST
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- I was informed by some forwarded mail and a mail of jhenders (my reply
- bounced just at the last site on the way to you, please check that,
- your host is lacking an MX record for you), that there suddenly is
- trouble about a version of nn for ST, and now, after all I read,
- I guess, its my version.
-
- I'm very sorry, that it causes so much trouble. Over a year ago I posted an
- installation guide to the german part of the net demanding every archive
- admin to incorporate it into their copy of nn, but it has been naive to
- think that would help.
-
- I will post it again after this article. It will not solve all problems, as
- the configuration, nn was aimed at, is very special (Gemini, Mercury UUCP or
- Digital Island UUCP), but there was nothing else (as far as UUCP systems for
- ST computers are concerned) available at the time NN was ported. I have no
- experience with Hermes, although the mmail.ttp incorporated in the nn
- distribution is a very ancient predecessor of mmail coming along with
- hermes. It is true that the shell used has to support the following features:
-
- _shell_p hook
- ARGV argument passing
- strings can be quoted without any processing by ''
-
- I heared there are older versions of gulam still alive which do not
- know about _shell_p or ARGV.
-
- Read the installation guide with special care for environment variables.
- nn uses a lot of environment variables standard in Unix, but not normally
- defined on an ST (HOME, LOGNAME, USER). I hope its all in the docs.
-
- I will stay tuned.
-
- --
- Olaf Schlueter, Sandkuhle 4-6, | olaf@oski.toppoint.de,
- 2300 Kiel 1, Germany, Toppoint Mailbox e.V. | olaf@tpki.toppoint.de
- My heart full of hope, my ass full of dope.
- Barcelona 1992
-