1.1 --- a/bib	Thu Jul 12 12:27:18 2012 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/bib	Thu Jul 12 14:16:27 2012 +0200
     1.3 @@ -128,7 +128,10 @@
     1.4  %T MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers
     1.5  %D 1995
     1.6  %I O'Reilly
     1.7 -%O \fU http://\:rand-mh.sourceforge.net/\:book/
     1.8 +%O An updated version of the book (now named \fIMH & nmh\fP) is
     1.9 +freely available on the Internet:
    1.10 +\fUhttp://\:rand-mh.sourceforge.net/\:book/\fP\|.
    1.11 +The latest update happened in May 2006.
    1.12  %K mh book
    1.13  
    1.14  %A Morris I. Bolsky
    1.15 @@ -218,7 +221,7 @@
    1.16  %A Phyllis H. Kantar
    1.17  %T The Design of the MH Mail System
    1.18  %S A RAND Note
    1.19 -%V N-3017-IRIS
    1.20 +%G N-3017-IRIS
    1.21  %D December 1989
    1.22  %I The RAND Corporation
    1.23  
    1.24 @@ -254,3 +257,25 @@
    1.25  %P 128\(en137
    1.26  %O \s-1ISBN\s0: 978-0-8330-4513-3
    1.27  \fU http://\:www.rand.org/\:pubs/\:corporate_pubs/\:2008/\:RAND_CP537.pdf
    1.28 +
    1.29 +%T An AJPO User's Guide for MH, the Rand Message Handling System
    1.30 +%V Version 1.1
    1.31 +%A Sara E. Moss
    1.32 +%A Purvis M. Jackson
    1.33 +%D September 1988
    1.34 +%I Carnegie Mellon University
    1.35 +%G CMU/SEI-88-UG-1, ESD-TR-88-030
    1.36 +%O \fU http://\:www.dtic.mil/\:dtic/\:tr/\:fulltext/\:u2/\:a204635.pdf
    1.37 +
    1.38 +%T MH for Beginners
    1.39 +%A Mary Hegardt
    1.40 +%A Tim Morgan
    1.41 +%D April 12 1990
    1.42 +%O \fU http://\:git.savannah.gnu.org/\:cgit/\:nmh.git/\:plain/\:docs/\:historical/\:beginners.pdf
    1.43 +
    1.44 +%T The Rand MH Message Handling System: Tutorial
    1.45 +%A Marshall T. Rose
    1.46 +%A Jerry N. Sweet
    1.47 +%D May 21 1986
    1.48 +%O \fU http://\:git.savannah.gnu.org/\:cgit/\:nmh.git/\:plain/\:docs/\:historical/\:tutorial.pdf
    1.49 +

     2.1 --- a/intro.roff	Thu Jul 12 12:27:18 2012 +0200
     2.2 +++ b/intro.roff	Thu Jul 12 14:16:27 2012 +0200
     2.3 @@ -34,32 +34,35 @@
     2.4  .U2 "History
     2.5  .P
     2.6  In 1977 at RAND Corporation, Norman Shapiro and Stockton Gaines
     2.7 -proposed the design
     2.8 -of a new mail handling system, called \fIMail Handler\fP (MH),
     2.9 -to superseed RAND's old monolithic \fIMail System\fP (MS).
    2.10 +proposed the design of a new mail handling system,
    2.11  .[
    2.12  shapiro gaines mh proposal
    2.13  .]
    2.14 -Two years later, in 1979, Bruce Borden took the proposal and implemented a
    2.15 -prototype of MH.
    2.16 +to superseed RAND's old monolithic \fIMail System\fP (MS).
    2.17 +More than one year later, in late 1978, Bruce Borden returned to the
    2.18 +proposal and implemented a prototype, which he called
    2.19 +\fIMail Handler\fP (MH).
    2.20  Before the prototype's existence, the concept was
    2.21  believed to be practically unusable.
    2.22 -But the prototype proved successful and replaced MS thereafter.\&
    2.23 -.[
    2.24 -history of mh website
    2.25 -.]
    2.26 +But the prototype \(en written in only three weeks \(en
    2.27 +proved successful and replaced MS within six months.\&
    2.28 +.[ [
    2.29 +rand note design of mh
    2.30 +.], p. 4]
    2.31  .P
    2.32  In the early eighties,
    2.33  the University of California at Irvine (UCI) started to use MH.
    2.34  Marshall T. Rose and John L. Romine then became the driving force.
    2.35  They took over the development and pushed MH forward.
    2.36 +.[ [
    2.37 +rand note design of mh
    2.38 +.], p. 4]
    2.39  RAND had put the code into the public domain by then.
    2.40  MH was developed at UCI at the time when the Internet appeared,
    2.41 -the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) added TCP/IP
    2.42 -networking to their distribution, and Eric Allman wrote Sendmail.
    2.43 +the BSD started to include TCP/IP networking,
    2.44 +and Eric Allman wrote Sendmail.
    2.45  MH was extended as emailing became more featured.
    2.46 -The development of MH was closely related to the development of email
    2.47 -RFCs.
    2.48 +The development of MH was closely related to the development of email RFCs.
    2.49  In the advent of the \fIMultipurpose Internet Mail Extensions\fP (MIME),
    2.50  MH was one of the first implementations of the new email standard.
    2.51  MH grew to provide anything necessary for emailing.
    2.52 @@ -87,14 +90,19 @@
    2.53  .U2 "Concepts
    2.54  .P
    2.55  MH consists of a set of tools, each covering a specific task of
    2.56 -email handling, like composing a message, replying to a message,
    2.57 +email handling, such as composing a message, replying to a message,
    2.58  refiling a message to a different folder, listing the messages in a folder.
    2.59 -All of the programs operate on a common mail storage.
    2.60 +The tools are invoked directly from the Unix shell.
    2.61 +.[
    2.62 +a rand note design of mh
    2.63 +.]
    2.64  .P
    2.65 -The mail storage consists of \fImail folders\fP (directories) and
    2.66 -\fPmessages\fP (regular files).
    2.67 -Each message is stored in a separate file in the format it was
    2.68 -received (i.e. transfer format).
    2.69 +The tools operate on a common mail storage, which consists of
    2.70 +\fImail folders\fP (directories) and \fPmessages\fP (regular files).
    2.71 +Each message is stored in a separate file.
    2.72 +.[
    2.73 +a rand note design of mh
    2.74 +.]
    2.75  The files are named with ascending numbers in each folder.
    2.76  The specific format of the mail storage characterizes MH in the same way
    2.77  as the format of the file system characterizes Unix.
    2.78 @@ -167,16 +175,27 @@
    2.79  
    2.80  .U2 "Using MH
    2.81  .P
    2.82 -It is strongly recommended to have a look at the \fIMH Book\fP,
    2.83 +Many tutorials to using MH
    2.84 +.[
    2.85 +rose sweet mh tutorial
    2.86 +.]
    2.87 +.[
    2.88 +moss jackson user's guide for mh
    2.89 +.]
    2.90 +.[
    2.91 +hegardt mh for beginners
    2.92 +.]
    2.93 +are old, but they still teach the basics.
    2.94 +Rose and Romine introduce MH deeper and more technical in two dozen pages.
    2.95 +.[
    2.96 +rose romine real work
    2.97 +.]
    2.98 +For a more recent introduction, it is strongly recommended to have
    2.99 +a look at the \fIMH Book\fP.
   2.100  .[ [
   2.101  peek mh book
   2.102  .], Part II]
   2.103 -which introduces into using MH.
   2.104 -Rose and Romine provide a deeper and more technical,
   2.105 -though slightly outdated, introduction in only about two dozen pages.
   2.106 -.[
   2.107 -rose romine real work
   2.108 -.]
   2.109 +The online version of the book was updated on in May 2006.
   2.110  .P
   2.111  Following here is an example mail handling session.
   2.112  Although it uses mmh, it is mostly compatible with nmh and the