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Does anybody know if mh is ported to Linux?  If so, is there a
site carrying the binaries, and could somebody please point me
to that site?

      / Andy

MH(1)                                                       MH(1)  

NAME                                                              
       mh - Message Handler                                        

SYNOPSIS                                                          
       any MH command                                              

DESCRIPTION                                                        
       MH  is  the  name  of  a powerful message handling system.  
       Rather then being a single comprehensive program, MH  con-  
       sists of a collection of fairly simple single-purpose pro-  
       grams to send, receive, save, and retrieve messages.   The  

so if nothing else works, you could get a redhat cd! ;-)

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Quote:>Does anybody know if mh is ported to Linux?  If so, is there a
>site carrying the binaries, and could somebody please point me
>to that site?

ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/linux/distributions/debian/rex/source/mail/m...
ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/linux/distributions/debian/rex/source/mail/m...

You might need the following patch as well:

Subject: Re: ^Z/fg problem revisited -- SIGCHLD semantics
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Dec 1996 00:04:51 EST."


X-URL: <http://www.arctic.org/>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 22:02:42 -0800

I doubt it, you can reproduce it with ed, elvis, and vim.  But the
fix for mh is easy -- I'll include it in case you're interested.

Dean

What follows is a patch for pidwait() which removes the WUNTRACED flag
from the waitpid() call.  Given that pidwait is supposed to return when
the child exits, it shouldn't be returning when the child is just suspended.
I'm not sure how that got into the code... and I'm not terribly familiar
with mh's source.  So maybe you should submit this to whomever works on it
since I doubt it's just a linux problem.

To see this bug in action use comp with vi (vim or elvis) or ed.  Then
do ^Z/fg several times and eventually comp will think the editor died
and it will exit for no good reason.

This is based on mh-6.8.4-2 from ftp.debian.org somewhere.

Dean

*** mh-6.8.4/sbr/pidwait.c.dist Tue Nov 30 20:01:26 1993
--- mh-6.8.4/sbr/pidwait.c      Sat Dec 21 17:24:11 1996
***************
*** 33,39 ****
      }

  #ifdef        SVR4
!     pid = waitpid (id, &status, WUNTRACED);
  #else
      while ((pid = wait (&status)) != NOTOK && pid != id)
        continue;
--- 33,39 ----
      }

  #ifdef        SVR4
!     pid = waitpid (id, &status, 0);
  #else
      while ((pid = wait (&status)) != NOTOK && pid != id)
        continue;

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