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REAM Version 4.12c.
Paul Dourish, July 1989.
The contents of this directory make up "ream", an alternative mail system. Ream stands for "REAd Mail"; I would have called it "rm", but someone got there first. Earlier versions of this program have been called "rmail" and "compose". This code is the work of Paul Dourish, except for the original changes for MMDF, which were made by Simon Brown. Scott Larnach has also contributed to various parts of the code. Many others, especially colleagues at CSTR and EUCS, have helped shape the code.
All code contained here may be freely distributed as long as it is not used for financial/commercial gain, and the authors are fully acknowledged for their work. All distributions must include full source and this file. Although there are no restrictions on distribution, I'd appreciate being kept informed of ream's progress around the net, so if it reaches a new site, let me know.
Ream was written as one person's solution to the vageries of various mail systems, esp UCB Mail. All code was produced on a VAX running BSD4.3, but ream has also been successfully compiled and run on SUNs running SUN UNIX 3.0 and upwards, Gould Powernode and NP-1 machines running UTX, a Pyramid 98x running OSx, Orion Mk 1s and 1/05s running OTS, HP-9000s running HP-UX, an Alliant FX/8 running 4.2BSD, Masscomps running RTU, MIPS machines running 4.3BSD, a Whitechapel MG1 running 42nix, an Arete 850 running System V, Sequent Balances and Symmetries running DYNIX, a GEC 63/40 running UX (System V), and a PDP-11 running BSD 2.10 (I'm not at all sure that the current version is still small enough to fit on a PDP-11, though). Current versions are compatible with sendmail and MMDF. If you make any modifications, or port ream to any new machines, then please let me know.
Please mail all bugs, suggestions, and donations of large amounts of money to:
Paul Dourish, Edinburgh University Computing Service, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, UK.
ARPA: jpd%ed.castle@nsf-relay.ac.uk UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!castle!jpd
JANET: jpd@uk.ac.ed.castle
INSTALLING REAM.
You should start by editting the Makefile, and follow the instructions it contains on what variables to define. Then type "make" to compile ream, and perhaps "make install" to install it. On most systems, this should work. If the make does not succeed, then look through config.h, which defines various symbols useful to ream, based its idea of your machine and system type; by tuning this file, you may be able to make ream go.
You might also want to edit compmisc.c, which contains a list of "clever" editors; these are ones which understand the "+n" argument, indicating that starting line of the edit. The distributed list includes jove, gnuemacs, emacs, vi and ex; you might want to add more (or change the names of some).