[6255] in SIPB bug reports
Re: ANNOUNCE: exmh 2.0alpha
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Dec 26 21:42:27 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: John Saylor <jsaylor@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Dec 1996 14:24:39 EST."
<3.0.32.19961204141700.0069fa00@po8.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 21:42:03 EST
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Since exmh is in the sipb
locker, I'm forwarding you question to bug-sipb. However, alpha
releases of software don't often get installed in the SIPB locker, so
I wouldn't count on anything.
Jonathon
> Hi
>
> I'm wondering if anyone is going to put this up on athena. And if so, where?
>
> Thanks.
>
> >To: exmh-announce@sunlabs.eng.Sun.COM
> >Subject: ANNOUNCE: exmh 2.0alpha
> >X-Url: http://www.smli.com/~bwelch/index.html
> >X-Face:
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> >Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 16:07:35 -0800
> >From: "Brent B. Welch" <bwelch@sunlabs.eng.Sun.COM>
> >Sender: owner-exmh-announce@sunlabs.eng.Sun.COM
> >
> >I have posted exmh-2.0alpha.tar.Z to
> >ftp.sunlabs.com:/pub/tcl/exmh
> >
> >This version requires Tk 4.1 or higher - the final release of Tk 4.2 was
> >made this October. This is the first major break with older versions
> >of Tk in a long, long time, and I wanted to do this to take advantage
> >of some new features and ditch some ugly compatibility code.
> >
> >This is "alpha" because it is the first 2.0 release.
> >I expect a "beta" release before Christmas.
> >
> >This release folds in a great many user-contributed features, including:
> > Added Intellegent Signatures to choose signature based on recipient
> (Keane)
> > Added Unseen summary window (Olly Stephens)
> > Added new multipart/signature (Ben Escoto and Chris Garrigues)
> > Added address memorization (Berry Kercheval)
> > Added Glimpse option to use a single index file. (Ethan Miller)
> > Added Eudora Content-Disposition header option.
> > Added Disposition Notification header for Return reciept. (Kjell Irgens)
> > Added in-line image display. (Chris Garrigues)
> > Added new mime option display (Chris Garrigues)
> > Added Mime_ShowUri to handle application/x-url parts.
> > Added per-folder message templates (Andrew Repton)
> > New threaded display code (Madrid)
> > Added single vertical column for detached folder display (de Silva?)
> > Added iconmask support for shaped icons. (Mark Rawling)
> > Added Post to post a message to a newsgroup. (Owen)
> > Added Auto Refile, bound this to key <period> (John Carroll)
> > Added MH sendproc support (Ringwald)
> >
> >I folded in an HTML viewer and moved all the docs into HTML. Even the
> >installer uses the HTML viewer. You can find these docs on the web too, at
> >http://www.sunlabs.com/~bwelch/exmh/
> >
> >I also changed the built-in editor to do hard linebreaking on its own, and
> >added a <Control-q> reformatter to rejustify the current paragraph.
> >
> >The complete change list is attached below.
> >
> >-- Brent Welch Sun Labs brent.welch@sun.com
> >
> >
> ><ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com//pub/tcl/exmh/exmh-2.0alpha.tar.Z>
> >
> ><ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com//pub/tcl/tcl7.6.tar.Z>
> >
> ><ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com//pub/tcl/tk4.2.tar.Z>
> >2.0alpha 12/3/96
> >*** This version requires Tk 4.1 or higher.
> > The documentation has been converted to HTML and a HTML viewer
> > has been added to exmh. You can even to HTTP fetches.
> > The installer uses a scrolled canvas to display all the options.
> > This release folds in many new features contributed by users:
> > Added Intellegent Signatures to choose signature based on recipient
> (Keane)
> > Added Unseen summary window (Olly Stephens)
> > Added new multipart/signature (Ben Escoto and Chris Garrigues)
> > Added address memorization (Berry Kercheval)
> > Added Glimpse option to use a single index file. (Ethan Miller)
> > Added Eudora Content-Disposition header option.
> > Added Disposition Notification header for Return reciept. (Kjell Irgens)
> > Added in-line image display. (Chris Garrigues)
> > Added new mime option display (Chris Garrigues)
> > Added Mime_ShowUri to handle application/x-url parts.
> > Added per-folder message templates (Andrew Repton)
> > New threaded display code (Madrid)
> > Added single vertical column for detached folder display (de Silva?)
> > Added iconmask support for shaped icons. (Mark Rawling)
> > Added Post to post a message to a newsgroup. (Owen)
> > Added Auto Refile, bound this to key <period> (John Carroll)
> > Added MH sendproc support (Ringwald)
> > Features added by Brent:
> > Sedit does its own word wrapping with hard line breaks during input.
> > Re-did Cite Selection formatting and added
> > Format paragraph command to Sedit (<Control-q>
> > Changed Import to run inc in the background.
> > Added stop button for large messages.
> > PGP has a timeout on keeping passwords.
> > Added "Top Ten" preferences pane.
> > Bug Fixes:
> > Tweaked sort-by-subject settings (Alistair Crooks)
> > A full rescan is done after deletes or refiles when in the "New FTOC"
> > pseudo display. Do not display new messages when in pseudo-scan
> > listing display mode.(Ignacio Martinez)
> > Fixed bug that occured when you deleted the Log window.
> > Fixed MIME boundary generation.
> > Fixed interface to Surfit! browser.
> > Fixed regexp for URLs in <a> </a> tags. (Paris)
> > Updated content-type guessing (Medley)
> > Unified the two spell check program preference settings.
> > Fixed "adding preferences to existing pane" bug.
> > Replace spaces in default file name with _ in filename selector.
> > Put bound on hack that adds blank lines to messages.
> > Eliminated unnecessary BgLostPid calls that caused lots
> > of traffic to the ps command.
> > Fixed foreground of colorized multiparts
> > Added 8-bit character check to MimeParse
> > Added UTS system type
> > Changed /tmp file names to begin with unique part.
> > Added check against unknown fonts in font selector.
> > Tweaked color support in text/enriched
> > Fixed pop-up menus to work over embedded images.
> >
> >
> >
> --
> John Saylor [from the home office]
