Subj : Re: New MM/Linux user!!! To : William Mcbrine From : James Bradley Date : Sat Feb 21 2004 12:17 pm -=> WILLIAM MCBRINE wrote to JAMES BRADLEY <=- -=> James Bradley wrote to William McBrine <=- JB> I'm resisting the temptation to `dance' just yet. This is the first WM> Worked fine. :-) Now, I need the right hip to follow the left... WM> That's not in any way a Red Hat port. Where did you get that idea? Um... A lack of knowledge. The rest I recognized to be other *NIX's, or gathered they were for a Motorola CPU... QNX was one I never heard before, and just assumed the "compiled on R..." stood for Red. WM> RPMs might be more apt, but unfortunately there are none for 0.46 (at WM> least, none that I know of). I usedto have some contributors who built WM> them, but they haven't shown up lately. Just the same, the `gunzip -h' gave me something else to read/expand my mind with. If I ever learn to bundle a good RPM, you'll be the first to know. Don't hold your breath though. WM> But if you really want a binary that's optimized for your system, you WM> should buildfrom source. :-) Any Day Now. WM> BTW, don't run as root. Create a regular user account, use that, and I'm doing so much configuring and experimenting that root makes more sense right now. I know better, but I'm a little too bombastic to give a hoot. Once I upgrade the OS, I will not be as reckless. Thanks for the thump-on-the-head though! JB> and then, the alias I've defined seems inactive. WM> I'm not sure what you mean here. But if you want to make an icon on WM> your desktop from which tolaunch it, you can. The target would just WM> have to be something like "xterm -e mm", instead of only "mm". Ah... I was using an open xterm, then typing the full `./mm-linux-i386elf'. I inserted an alias for it, ("mm=/root/mm-linux...") but that doesn't seem to survive the X server startup. (I know... "Why in `/root'?" Which leads me to:) Should I eventually make the install off of `/mmail-0.46' or should it be nested somewhere else? JB> Where do I find the docs/FAQ/HOWTO/man/info files? WM> In the source archive. This is how you'd install it: Which would explain why I couldn't find them. Silly me. WM> [download mmail-0.46.tar.gz] WM> tar zxvf mmail-0.46.tar.gz WM> cd mmail-0.46 WM> make WM> make install WM> Then you can read the man page by typing "man mm", and the rest by WM> reading the various files in mmail-0.46. (This is all pretty standard WM> for Linux.) For some reason, `make' wasn't installed, and I had to RPM it from another distro. Still, no online docs exist here for make or (dep)mode(probe), so I'm a little unilluminated so far. I'm getting the notion that Mandrake might expect their users to use RPMs, and `linuxconf' exclusively. WM> If for some reason you can't compile it, you'll still have to get the WM> documentation from the source archive. Unlike the DOS/Win32/etc. WM> versions, the binaries for Linux and Unix are distributed without docs. No doubt to keep us newbies in the dark? (Not sure I *want* an answer to that. |-) WM> (The exceptions are the RPMand DEB packages.) My expectation is that WM> most Unix users will compile it themselves. WM> Of course, the bulk of the documentation is the same across all WM> platforms. The man page is "mm.txt" in the Win32 archive you already WM> have. :-) Cheers! .... Film at Eleven. --- MultiMail/Linux v0.46 --- Mystic BBS v1.07.3 (DOS) * Origin: MikE'S MaDHousE -- WelComE to the AsYluM! (1:134/11) .