Re: [Nmh-workers] cleaning out the cobwebs

2010-11-06 Thread Ken Hornstein
>I know that was written as kind of a rhetorical question, no-one would >ever want to go back to editing Makefiles and config.h type files, would >they, these days? > >But yes, that is exactly the right solution these days - the time for autoconf >has passed (when Larry Wall wrote the config script

Re: [Nmh-workers] Hesiod

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Brown
On Nov 6, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: > And speaking of obscure platforms, is Hesiod still being used in the > wild? The API usage in nmh is trivial enough, but I don't have any way > of testing it. It's still used at MIT. I would guess that most other places thes

Re: [Nmh-workers] Hesiod

2010-11-06 Thread belg4mit
Yes, MIT still uses Hesiod. I do have access to an Athena account if there is no other platform available for testing. ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

[Nmh-workers] Hesiod

2010-11-06 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
And speaking of obscure platforms, is Hesiod still being used in the wild? The API usage in nmh is trivial enough, but I don't have any way of testing it. ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-

[Nmh-workers] portability

2010-11-06 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
Robert mentions: > However, I am not nearly as confident as some here that everything is > possible simply by writing posix compatible code. I don't mean by > that that posix code can't do what MH needs, but that I suspect that > there are still real users on real systems that don't do everything

Re: [Nmh-workers] Fixing decoding of quoted messages in replies

2010-11-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:08:52 +0700, Robert Elz said: > Date:Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:27:33 + > From:Peter Maydell > Message-ID: > > | [Aside: 'columns' is > | usually the same as 'characters' except that some Chinese/Japanese > | characters are two columns wide