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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I copied my laptop setup for BL3.40 on top of my desktop BL3.32 and most 
things kept working.  I undid the change away from Xvesa but forgot to 
change to serial mouse and that corrupted xinit but I replaced it.

I changed fstab from hda2 to sda1 and similarly for the boot files, and 
amount of ram (mem=*M in the boot file).

I copied the pmail setup on top of my mutt setup, which I had installed 
over the pmail setup.  I think they both use .pmailrc and in BL2 and I 
think in BL3.32 I could not get pmail to work any more after installing 
the BL3 mutt package because it change .pmailrc to a different format.

To my surprise, I have them both working in BL3.40 but this was not until 
I modified 'mu' and added a $1 at the end of it.  I can now type mu a AT b.c 
and get a screen with the To: line already filled in, Enter key to get the 
Subject line which I then fill in, write a mail and send it and it gets 
sent instead of an error message.

Before I modified mu I got an error message about child and 27 or 127 when 
I tried to send anything.  I just got a mail here that I sent with pmail.

Has anyone else been unable to use pmail after installing the old BL3 or 
BL2 mutt packages?

Steven, did you change anything in the mail setup?

Is there any simple way to attach a base-64 encoded file to a message with 
pmail?  That is all I use mutt for in BL (because I don't use pop mail, I 
write most mails at a shell account with pine, or with mutt there) and it 
is a large package.  I have uuencode but not all email programs can read 
that easily.  What I would need is some binary to base64 encoder and then 
probably import the encoded file into my message somehow.

I have this package posted at my site.  The newer one had the wrong binary 
and Steven dropped it.  It includes lots of extra things like catdoc and 
setfont which are useful for reading WORD files or writing Czech.

The Slovene job seems to absolutely require producing WORD files so I 
declined it.  Good luck to them in finding a native speaker of English 
with good Slovene and an understanding of medical technology, who meets 
their major requirement, using MS WORD.

BL3.40 works fine booted with loadlin from a scsi drive, and BL2 is 
working on this drive with scanner and scsi zip drive.  Boot takes a bit 
longer but I think it runs faster.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org