REAM Version 4.17.
Paul Dourish, March 1993.

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If you want to be kept informed of new ream releases, please mail
dourish@europarc.xerox.com, or scott@castle.ed.ac.uk (Edinburgh only).
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The contents of this directory make up "ream", an alternative mail
system.  Ream stands for "REAd Mail"; I would have called it "rm", but
someone got there first. Earlier versions of this program have been
called "rmail" and "compose". This code is the work of Paul Dourish,
except for the original changes for MMDF, which were made by Simon
Brown. Much work for version 5, bux-fixing, enhancing and
robustifying, has been done by Scott Larnach at Edinburgh. Many
others, especially colleagues at CSTR and EUCS in Edinburgh, have
helped shape the code.

All code contained here may be freely distributed as long as it is not
used for financial/commercial gain, and the authors are fully
acknowledged for their work. All distributions must include full
source and this file.  Although there are no restrictions on
distribution, I'd appreciate being kept informed of ream's progress
around the net, so if it reaches a new site, let me know.

Ream was written as one person's solution to the vageries of various
mail systems, esp UCB Mail. All code was originally produced on a VAX
running BSD4.3, but ream has also been successfully compiled and run
on SUNs running SUN UNIX 3.x, 4.x and 5.x, Gould Powernode and NP-1
machines running UTX, a Pyramid 98x running OSx, Orion Mk 1s and 1/05s
running OTS, HP-9000s running HP-UX, VAXstations and DECstations under
various releases of Ultrix, a DEC Alpha machine under OSF/1, an
Alliant FX/8 running 4.2BSD, Masscomps running RTU, MIPS machines
running 4.3BSD, NeXT machines, a Whitechapel MG1 running 42nix,
various flavours of IBM AIX boxes, an Arete 850 running System V,
Sequent Balances and Symmetries running DYNIX, a CRAY X-MP under
UNICOS, a GEC 63/40 running UX (System V.2), and a PDP-11 running BSD
2.10 (I'm not at all sure that the current version is still small
enough to fit on a PDP-11, though). Given that list, it's probable
that it runs on anything!

Current versions are compatible with sendmail, MMDF and PP. If you
make any modifications, or port ream to any new machines, then please
let me know.

Please mail all bugs, suggestions, and donations of large amounts of
money to:

Paul Dourish, Rank Xerox EuroPARC, 61 Regent St, Cambridge, UK CB2 1AB.
Dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM
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INSTALLING REAM.

You should start by editting the Makefile, and follow the instructions it
contains on what variables to define. Then type "make" to compile ream, and
perhaps "make install" to install it. On most systems, this should work. If
the make does not succeed, then look through config.h, which defines various
symbols useful to ream, based its idea of your machine and system type; by
tuning this file, you may be able to make ream go.

You might also want to edit compmisc.c, which contains a list of "clever"
editors; these are ones which understand the "+n" argument, indicating that
starting line of the edit. The distributed list includes jove, gnuemacs,
emacs, ue, vi and ex; you might want to add more (or change the names of
some).

