rand-mh Files

These files are archives of the mh-users mailing list (which is
now also gatewayed to the USENET comp.mail.mh newsgroup).  These
aren't complete.  If you have copies of messages that aren't in
this archive, please send me mail; I'll arrange to get them and
try to add them to the archives.

Each file has the messages for one calendar year.  The archives
were created with MH packf(1).  Then, they were compressed with
gzip(1).  To copy the messages, be sure to set ftp to "binary"
transfer.  Here are the steps to restore the messages into a folder
named mh-users:

	% gunzip mh-users.86.gz
        % inc -file mh-users.86 +mh-users

You can also just uncompress the file or use gzcat(1) without
inc(1) -- the messages are separated with lines of 4 control-A
characters (^A^A^A^A).  You can browse the uncompressed files
with msh:

	% msh mh-users.86

Now you can search with pick(1), read with show(1), etc.


The messages were formatted with this mhl(1) format file that
deletes some components from the original headers (like Received:)
to save space:

	width=10000
	ignores=received,return-path,replied,forwarded
	Date:
	To:
	From:
	Subject:
	extras:nocomponent
	:
	body:nocomponent,width=10000

If you have questions, suggestions, etc. please send me mail.

--Jerry Peek, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., jerry@ora.com
  1 March 1991