Subj : Re: New MM-Linux user! To : William Mcbrine From : James Bradley Date : Sat Feb 21 2004 04:11 am -=> WILLIAM MCBRINE wrote to JAMES BRADLEY <=- -=> James Bradley wrote to Monica Neufeld <=- MN> mm-linux-i386elf.gz (188k) - Linux/i386 ELF, now statically linked. WM> Yes. It should work on any x86 Linux system since ELF was adopted (a WM> long time now). However, I strongly recommend that you download the WM> source and compile it yourself. If and only if that doesn't work WM> satisfactorily, then try the precompiled binary. WM> The source code archive is "mmail-0.46.tar.gz". (Also available in .zip For that, I'd need to know how to compile something. Could you point me to the HOWTO file? The source code was what I tried first, but the POTS to I-net, POTS from *almost* long distance, and POTS again to here might have fooled the CRC along the way and produced a botched file. (We have a phone company that just launched an advertisment campain explaining, "We know we've been giving you the shaft, and we're sorry for that...") I'll be sure to give it another try though. MN> mm-qnx-i386.gz (122k) - QNX/i386, compiled on RTP 6.0. WM> Not unless you're (also) using QNX. Pretty rare, but maybe you are? QNX WM> is a different operating system. I thought RTP = redhat. I best start getting some sleep. JB> I don't think the Alpha processor resides here. <-; WM> No; you'd know if you had one. :-) One time - at auction - ... JB> Here I thought all versions of Linux/Unix would use the same port. WM> I'm not sure what you mean here. There's one source code tree, and no WM> ifdefs betweenUnices, IIRC. But of course the compiled code is WM> different. WM> Most Linux users would use the i386 binary, aka x86. ButLinux also WM> runs on all kinds of non-Intel-compatible processors. Oh... I thought all the compiled programs would be identical if they were running on Linux. Knowing that Linux programs compile differently for the different instruction sets of the CPU surprised me, as I thought the OS would level all else. The multitudes of compiled versions of MM made me think that there were that many ports (Not the access-to-machine kind, but as I heard it used for a DOS-to-OS2 type.) for each Linux distrubution. As you can see, that was making my already fuzzy logic that much fuzzier. WM> ... "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so." Time for my belly to leave the table. O-8 As you shall see, I managed to stick the mm-linux-i386elf to this box. Thanks again for the great product, and a HUGE thanks for trying to get this numb-skull through my stupidity. .... Of all the things I'velost, it's the mind I miss the most. --- MultiMail/Linux v0.46 --- Mystic BBS v1.07.3 (DOS) * Origin: MikE'S MaDHousE -- WelComE to the AsYluM! (1:134/11) .