From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 30 12:44:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA23360 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (slip139-92-42-60.ut.nl.ibm.net [139.92.42.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA15296; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.jhs.no_domain (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id CAA08697; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 02:36:47 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199609300136.CAA08697@vector.jhs.no_domain> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gs looking for libz.h From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. Mailer: EXMH 1.6.7, PGP available X-Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany X-Phone: +49.89.268616 X-Fax: +49.89.2608126 X-Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 29 Sep 1996 23:02:58 +0200." <199609292102.XAA00849@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 02:36:46 +0100 Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Reference: > From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) > > According to Andreas Klemm: > > Pine offers me more features in the moment and is better for > > me to browse the mailinglist stuff. So I'd recommend pine a bit > > more in the moment.... > > If you're not afraid of alpha software (but works very well generally) and > are willing to cope with some core dumps, try Mutt[1]. &/or also try EXMH, a really nice X11 mouse click style front end to MH, http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/generic/mail/exmh/ The wrapper makefile is dated June 96 but that's just the date of my last upgrade, the original wrapper I did long ago; ref. my local copy: -rw-r--r-- 1 jhs staff 3370 Jun 27 13:46 Makefile drwxr-xr-x 2 jhs staff 512 Dec 20 1995 files/ drwxr-xr-x 2 jhs staff 512 Jan 22 1996 patches/ drwxr-xr-x 2 jhs staff 512 Jan 17 1996 pkg/ Don't wait for it to arrive in ports/ though, it probably never will: Certain of the FreeBSD oligarchy take time to criticise my stuff, but take no time to supply diffs or code, which discourages others from examining or enhancing or committing, so there's no ports/mail/exmh. Similarly there's little chance of ever seeing my WYSIWYG style linkage of vi chimera ghostview xfig in src/ & ports/, just in: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src\ /generic/usr.bin/vi/wysiwyg.* All components to build this are listed in http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/wysiwyg.shar It works, but like EXMH it's not in src/ & ports/. These with all my other uncommitted FreeBSD contributions are indexed in: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/src/fixes.html I apply all my fixes & extras localy, as per: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/src/automatic.html Enhancements to anything welcome, preferably as diff -c. Give EXMH a try, it's rather nice, & unlike some mail interfaces, it doesnt mandate a particular editor, it defaults to emacs, but one can use anything (I use vi). My wrapper may be a bit dated, it doesn't get much use, exiled in web space, where there's not much incentive to maintain it; diffs are welcome. Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/