-=> WILLIAM MCBRINE wrote to JAMES BRADLEY <=-
 -=> James Bradley wrote to Monica Neufeld <=-

 MN> mm-linux-i386elf.gz (188k) - Linux/i386 ELF, now statically linked.

 WM> Yes. It should work on any x86 Linux system since ELF was adopted (a
 WM> long time now). However, I strongly recommend that you download the
 WM> source and compile it yourself. If and only if that doesn't work
 WM> satisfactorily, then try the precompiled binary.

 WM> The source code archive is "mmail-0.46.tar.gz". (Also
available in .zip

For that, I'd need to know how to compile something.   Could
you point me
to the HOWTO file? 

The source code was what I tried first, but the POTS to I-net, POTS from
*almost* long distance, and POTS again to here might have fooled the CRC along
the way and produced a botched file. (We have a phone company that just
launched an advertisment campain explaining, "We know we've been giving you the
shaft, and we're sorry for that...") I'll be sure to give it another try
though.

 MN> mm-qnx-i386.gz (122k) - QNX/i386, compiled on RTP 6.0.

 WM> Not unless you're (also) using QNX. Pretty rare, but maybe you are? QNX
 WM> is a different operating system.

I thought RTP = redhat. I best start getting some sleep.

 JB> I don't think the Alpha processor resides here. <-;

 WM> No; you'd know if you had one. :-)

One time - at auction - ...

 JB> Here I thought all versions of Linux/Unix would use the same port.

 WM> I'm not sure what you mean here. There's one source code tree, and no
 WM> ifdefs betweenUnices, IIRC. But of course the compiled code is
 WM> different.

 WM> Most Linux users would use the i386 binary, aka x86. ButLinux also
 WM> runs on all kinds of non-Intel-compatible processors.

Oh... I thought all the compiled programs would be identical if they were
running on Linux. Knowing that Linux programs compile differently for the
different instruction sets of the CPU surprised me, as I thought the OS would
level all else. The multitudes of compiled versions of MM made me think that
there were that many ports (Not the access-to-machine kind, but as I heard it
used for a DOS-to-OS2 type.) for each Linux distrubution. As you can see, that
was making my already fuzzy logic that much fuzzier.

 WM> ... "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so."

Time for my belly to leave the table. O-8

As you shall see, I managed to stick the mm-linux-i386elf to this box. Thanks
again for the great product, and a HUGE thanks for trying to get this
numb-skull through my stupidity. 
 


... Of all the things I'velost, it's the mind I miss the most.
--- MultiMail/Linux v0.46

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