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<H1>What's New in the Online Edition of the MH book</H1>
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[First, a brief request for your help on future updates.
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This book is a volunteer project, and my time is very limited
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now that I have a full-time job again.
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<I>Want to help make this book better?</I>
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See <A HREF="to-do.htm">Jerry's To-Do List</A>.
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<DD>Because of the Unisys patent on the LZW algorithm used in many GIF
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files, I've replaced all the original GIF files.
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Some are now JPEGs; others are non-LZW GIFs made with the
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<A HREF="http://home.wxs.nl/~nijtmans/img.html">Tcl Img extension</A>.
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I also made some other formatting changes.
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<A HREF="updates.htm#991009">Here are details</A>.
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<DD>I've updated the book for nmh-1.0 and made other small revisions.
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<DD>The Australian mirror site at ftp.atrax.com.au is offline temporarily.
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I've removed it from the list of servers.
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<DD>The maintenance of the mh-e sections has been taken over by Bill Wohler.
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This update saw no user-visible changes, but a lot of behind the scenes
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machinery was set up in order to ensure easy updates in the future.
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This work was stimulated by Peter Galbraith who created a Debian
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GNU/Linux package of this book.
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<DD>Erwin J. van Eijk had to discontinue his mirror server in the Netherlands.
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There's still a European server in Finland; see the
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<A HREF="servers.htm">list of servers</A> for the latest info.
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<DD>Updated Brent Welch's email address and URL of the <I>exmh</I> home page.
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<DD>There's a PostScript version of the book available for downloading at
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<A HREF="ftp://ftp.gw.com/pub/people/jpeek/mh/book-ps/">
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ftp://ftp.gw.com/pub/people/jpeek/mh/book-ps/</A>.
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It's not kept up to date as often as the Web pages, but it is up to date
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to the current edition, 28 September 1997.
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<DD>The new Australian mirror site is online now.
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(see the <A HREF="servers.htm">list of servers</A>).
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The link on the server list is to the home page (<I>index.htm</I>),
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but if you omit that part of the URL, you'll get a top-level listing
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<DD>This is the second major update to the online edition.
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I changed the title (again) to
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<I>MH & nmh: Email for Users & Programmers</I> because
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this edition covers nmh as well as MH.
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Here's a <A HREF="updates.htm#970928">list of changes</A>, including links to
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(or close to) the places that changed.
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<DD>There have been few problems, so I've updated the
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<A HREF="download/">online archive files</A> for the book.
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<DD>It was a long time coming, but the first major update to the online
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We changed the title from
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<I>MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers</I> to just
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<I>MH: Email for Users & Programmers</I> because the book also
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covers <I>exmh</I> and mh-e.
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Here's a <A HREF="updates.htm#970530">list of changes</A>, including links to
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(or close to) the places that changed.
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<DD>The fourth mirror site, at FUNET in Finland, is on line now
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(see the <A HREF="servers.htm">list of servers</A>).
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The book is also available by FTP from FUNET.
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The link on the server list is to the home page (<I>index.htm</I>),
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but if you omit that part of the URL, you'll get a top-level listing
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<DD>The third mirror site, in the Netherlands (Europe), is on line now
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(see the <A HREF="servers.htm">list of servers</A>).
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Kudos to Erwin J. van Eijk (who, like other mirror admins, is a volunteer).
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<DD>There's a second mirror site now, in the eastern US
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(see the <A HREF="servers.htm">list of servers</A>).
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Thanks to Kimmo Suominen.
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<DD>After a lot of tweaking, I think I've got the bugs out of this new
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So I made the downloadable versions of the book for people who are
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behind firewalls, on very slow links, etc. You can get it from
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<I>ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/book/download/</I>.
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Start by reading the README file.
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<DD>Added <A HREF="servers.htm">list of servers</A>.
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The first Australian mirror site is completely up and running
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(thanks to Jason Ornstein!).
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<DD>Put a reorganized copy of the book on the Web and FTP servers at the
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University of California, Irvine.
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The book's four parts have been split into four separate subdirectories
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(plus a directory for overall information); each subdirectory will be
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maintained by the peron who wrote that material.
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The original print version is still available in HTML format in
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<A HREF="download/original.tar.gz">the <I>download/original.tar.gz</I> file</A>,
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<A HREF="http://www.oreilly.com/freebooks/mh/">http://www.oreilly.com/freebooks/mh/</A>,
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and <A HREF="ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/freebooks/mh/">
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ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/freebooks/mh/</A>.
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<DD>Added tweaks to CGI indexing program.
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Now users with off-line copies of the book
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(on their local hard disks) can run index search on Web server, then
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click on the index links returned and get their local pages.
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If a URL has extra path info on the end, like this:
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http://www.ics.uci.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/mh/mh-index/BOOK-MH?something
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The CGI index search will return links that point to the user's local
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filesystem, like this:
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file:///BOOK-MH/somefile.htm
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<DD>Test online version stable (but still needs lots of tweaking)
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<EM>Last change $Date: 1999/10/10 05:14:05 $</EM>
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This file first appeared in the updated online edition of the book
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<I>MH & nmh: Email for Users & Programmers</I>, by Jerry Peek.
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Copyright © 1997 by Jerry Peek.
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This file is freely available; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see
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<A HREF="copying.htm">the file <I>copying.htm</I></A>.
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Suggestions are welcome:
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