Atari Mega Archive 1/Atari Mega Archive - Volume 1.iso/telecomm/uemlsrc.arc/readme.mss

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The following 11 files are the source code to uemail ST.  I have had a
number of requests for this source and decided to post it to the atari
group all at once.  I decided not to post it to net sources because the
program has been made so ST specific that I doubt it would have much appeal
for the mainframe crowd.  This editor is based on the original D. G. Conroy
version that I believe was written about 1978.  That version was 27.  This
program was ported to the ST from a CP/M-68K version I made a year ago.
The original has not been around for some years.  One of my instructors
found the source for me on an old disk he had in his office.  All this is a
round-about way of saying that the ancestry of this version is very
different from that of most of the current microemaxen.  I have tried to
add some GNU type commands and to make a few of the standard commands work
the way they do with Vax GNU, but this is not microGNU.  It does have an
aliasing feature and a command interface.  I use it as a shell, and never
see the desktop after startup.  I can even connect to remote systems via
the kermit section (which will be improved once my ordered copy of the
kermit protocol manual arrives).

I hope people find this code as educational as I have, and I would like to
thank Mr. Conroy for writing such interesting and useful C.  For better or
worse I taught myself that language with his program as guide.  Of course
there are others whose code appears in this program.  Most of them I do not
know, or know only through the NET.  Notable are Richard Stallman whose GNU
makes teaching writing on the computer much saner than it was before, and
Jwahar R. Bammi @ Case whose ST code has always been solid.