[183] in World Wide Web
[Gruber@HPP.Stanford.EDU: info on availability of hypermail]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Sat Nov 20 00:51:19 1993
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 00:50:50 -0500
To: webmaster@MIT.EDU, www@MIT.EDU
In case anyone is interested... Unless I hear some interest from
someone, I'm just going to punt this. If someone wants to write a
better, free version, I'd be happy. :-)
chad
In response to inquiries about hypermail, I've written a document
describing the form and conditions of its availability. My intent is
to make it as easy to distribute as possible while maintaining control
of the sources. If you have any comments or suggestions, let me know.
I've been able to incorporate many of your initial suggestions into
the new version.
The universal resource locator for this document is
http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/hypermail/hypermail-availability.html
Availability of Hypermail
*************************
Hypermail is a compiler that takes a file of mail messages and
generates a hypertext web of HTML documents.
The program is available, free of charge, under a license
agreement. It allows free use for noncommercial purposes, and
protects against unauthorized distribution. Contact Tom Gruber
<gruber@ksl.stanford.edu> to obtain a copy of the agreement. Upon
receipt of a signed agreement, EIT will send you the program.
Hypermail is written in Common Lisp, and is intended to run on unix
machines where shared mail is maintained. It was developed under
Lucid, and is optimized for that implementation. If you have Lucid,
then you need only compile the source file and build an executable.
The program is delivered as a executable for the Sun Sparc
architecture. If you have a Sparc machine, you can use Hypermail
"out of the box" by copying the release directory to your machine
and setting an environment variable. This version, which is
byte-compiled under a public-domain implementation of Lisp, is 3
times slower and 5 times smaller than the optimized Lucid version.
The public-domain lisp is called Clisp. If you don't have Lucid or a
Sun, then you can compile Hypermail under Clisp for your
machine. Clisp has been ported to several architectures, including
o Linux
o Sun Sparc, SunOS 4
o Sun Sparc, SunOS 5 (Solaris 2)
o Sun386i
o Sun 3, SunOS 4
o HP9000 Series 800/700
o 386BSD 0.1
o DECstation 5000, Ultrix 4.2A
o DEC Alpha AXP, OSF/1
o SGI, Irix 4
o Coherent 386
You can get the Clisp for these machines by ftp from
file://ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/lisp/clisp/. See the
Clisp documentation for more information.
Tom Gruber <gruber@ksl.stanford.edu>
