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This tar archive contains the lex sources and the binary executable of a filter
that converts the .mailrc alias format to the format used by NeXT Mail in the
file that is usually located in ~/.NeXT/.mailalias (one for every user, of
course), so that you can use your old unix addresses in NeXT Mail.
DISCLAIMER: everything is provided AS IS, and I will not consider myself
responsible for whatever could happen if you follow my instructions (so imagine
if you dont follow them :-) ).
If you are not frightened by the disclaimer, anyway, here is how to proceed.
1) save your original .mailalias file, just in case you have some new addresses
in NeXT Mail that were not in .mailrc
mv ~/.NeXT/.mailalias ~/.NeXT/.mailalias.old
2) convert your .mailrc
cvt_mailrc
3) quit NeXT Mail if it is running and re-run it... try Send Addresses and enjoy!!!!
4) if you have some new addresses and groups in NeXT Mail that were not in
.mailrc, edit ~/.NeXT/.mailalias and ~/.NeXT/.mailalias.old, and add them
(by hand, I'm sorry :-) from ~/.NeXT/.mailalias.old to ~/.NeXT/.mailalias,
remembering that the user addresses must all be put in the group
Private Users: following the preceding ones and WITHOUT newlines.
5) A NeXT interface (as a service in the Mail menu) will come out as soon as I can
get some documentation on the 2.0 version of NeXTStep, allowing me to do something
smarter than reverse-engineering when programming with the GUI.
--Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr>
Dipartimento di Informatica LIENS
Universita' di Pisa Ecole Normale Superieure
Corso Italia, 40 45, Rue d'Ulm
Pisa ITALY Paris FRANCE
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.