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Rework in Preface and Intro.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Fri, 18 May 2012 11:21:51 +0200
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     1.1 --- a/preface.roff	Thu May 17 19:26:59 2012 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/preface.roff	Fri May 18 11:21:51 2012 +0200
     1.3 @@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
     1.4  .H0 "Preface" no
     1.5  
     1.6  .P
     1.7 -MH is a set of mail handling tools with a common concept, like
     1.8 -the Unix toolchest is a set of file handling tools with a common
     1.9 +MH is a set of mail handling tools with a common concept, similar to
    1.10 +the Unix toolchest, which is a set of file handling tools with a common
    1.11  concept. nmh is the currently most popular implementation of an
    1.12  MH-like mail handling system.
    1.13 -This thesis describes an experimental version of nmh,
    1.14 -named \fImmh\fP.
    1.15 -The project goals for mmh are modernizing, stream-lining and exploiting
    1.16 -MH's concepts even more thoroughly.
    1.17 +This thesis describes an experimental version of nmh, named \fImmh\fP.
    1.18  
    1.19  .U2 "Background to this Thesis
    1.20  .P
    1.21 @@ -102,8 +99,8 @@
    1.22  
    1.23  .U2 "Focus of this Document
    1.24  .P
    1.25 -This document describes my work on the experimental nmh version, named
    1.26 -\fImmh\fP. It explains the changes to nmh, with focus on their reasons.
    1.27 +This document describes my work on mmh.
    1.28 +It explains the changes to nmh, with focus on their reasons.
    1.29  It discusses technical, historical, social and philosophical considerations.
    1.30  On the technical side, this document
    1.31  explains how an existing project was stream-lined by removing rough edges
    1.32 @@ -170,7 +167,7 @@
    1.33  .[
    1.34  gancarz unix phil
    1.35  .]
    1.36 -Even better but less concrete are ``The UNIX Programming Environment''
    1.37 +Even better, though less concrete, are ``The UNIX Programming Environment''
    1.38  .[
    1.39  kernighan pike unix prog env
    1.40  .]