2.11BSD/src/local/mp/CHANGES
@(#)CHANGES 1.8 92/02/17
Mp change history.
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v2.5 - patchlevel 6 - 17th February 1992.
* Removed Bertrands' portion of the fix (introduced in patch #5) to
prevent text overwriting in the top banner. Just Rainers' fix is now
being used.
* From Donn Fisher <Donn.Fisher@Eng.Sun.COM>
Various fixups to the mp and mailp manual pages to get them inline
with the OpenWindows V3.0.1 ones.
* Occurances of index() in header.c and misc.c have been replaced with
strchr(). The definition for NOINDEX in Makefile.dist has been changed
to a definition for NOSTRCHR. The README has been updated.
* Added in a -C command line option to mp. If used, mp will look for (and
use) a Content-Length: header line to determine the length of the mail
message to print, rather than the "\nFrom" string. If the Content-Length
doesn't take you to the next "\nFrom", then it's wrong, and mp falls back
to looking for the next "\nFrom" in the mail folder.
The Content-Length doesn't seem to include the blank line between the
header and the message body or the blank line after the message body
and before the next header, so for the purposes of getting to the start
of the next message, mp adds two to the Content-Length count.
Mp manual pages have been updated.
v2.5 - patchlevel 5 - 3rd February 1992.
* From Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au>
New location for the mp files via anon ftp on ftp.adelaide.edu.au.
They are now in a compressed tar file called mp.tar.Z in pub/sun/richb
* From Bertrand Decouty <Bertrand.Decouty@irisa.fr>
Patch #4 broke the support for printing of 8bit characters (see entry
from Sjoerd.Mullender@cwi.nl). The parameter to expand() has been
returned to being an unsigned char *, and all places where this is
called have been adjusted accordingly.
* From Bertrand Decouty <Bertrand.Decouty@irisa.fr>
Adjusted Makefile.dist to install mailp (and friends) with symbolic
links as opposed to hard links. Added a small comment to the trouble-
shooting section of the README file, to detail this possible problem
for UNIX systems which don't have symbolic links.
* From Bjorn P. Brox <brox@dms.corena.no>
The current /backspace definition in the PostScript prologue files
won't work on all PostScript variants using Type1 fonts. A comment has
been added to the trouble-shooting section in the README file describing
a workaround.
* From Bjorn P. Brox <brox@dms.corena.no>
The ISOLatin1Encoding array is only present in "new" PostScript
printers. Need to include definitions for "old" printers. Some printers
don't have the /Thorn character. The PostScript versions I have used,
including GhostScript does not fail if an entry in /Encoding does not
exist in /CharStrings.
From the Reference Manual, second edition, page 271 (5.3 Character
Encoding):
"If some encoding maps to a character name that does not exist in
the font, .notdef is substituted."
Therefore it should be safe to define ISOLatin1Encoding even if some
of the characters does not exist.
* From Rainer Klute <klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
From Bjorn P. Brox <brox@dms.corena.no>
I suggest that mp be reorganised to have one prologue file containing
definitions, like backspacefont and reencodeISO, for all prologue files,
and let the special prolog files just contain the differences. The common
prologue file is called mp.common.ps. FILES, Makefile.dist, README and
MANIFEST have been updated.
* From Rainer Klute <klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
A little change to the Makefile, making $(MPPATH)/man/man$(MPMANSECT)
the default path for manual pages instead of $(MPPATH)/man$(MPMANSECT).
Seems more conventional.
* From Rainer Klute <klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
A solution to the From/Date clashes in the header mentioned by Fulvio
Marino <fulvio@ssuxos.ICO.OLIVETTI.COM> in the TODO file. These
clashes can occur if the mail address is quite long (like mine). In
such a case the font sizes of all header strings are reduced a bit so
that everythings fits into the available space nicely.
The patch should also make the PostScript thing a little faster.
[Applied to mp.pro.ps and mp.pro.l.ps]
* From Bertrand Decouty <Bertrand.Decouty@irisa.fr>
As I have very quickly observed such a clash while printing, in
landscape mode, an article from a newsgroup (comp.unix.questions), I
propose to print the left and the right parts on 2 lines, with the same
alignment and fonts.
[Applied to mp.pro.ps and mp.pro.l.ps]
* From Glenn M. Lewis <glewis@fws204.intel.com>
Typing "mail -F -m mail/survey > survey.ps" has a couple of of problems.
First, the "From:" name is not necessarily correct. It often is the name
of the person who sent the message *following* the current one. [The
subject printed in the bottom banner can be incorrect too - Rich]. Also,
when a message is too long for a single page, it seems to print the tail
of the message before the top of it.
* From Fulvio Marino <fulvio@ssuxos.ICO.OLIVETTI.COM>
Printing a mail folder in landscape mode, top and bottom headers are
wrong: the last page of each mail has the headers of the following one!
My platform is: Olivetti LSX-3020 running X/OS 2.4 (a SysV+Bsd system
with X/OPEN compatibility); printer is an Olivetti PG-306 (emulating HP
LJ II) with an expansion board of Bauer Enterprises (PostScript Emulation
Version 4.1).
v2.5 - patchlevel 4 - 28th January 1992.
* From Sjoerd.Mullender@cwi.nl
I have ported mp to an SGI system running IRIX 4.0.1. To get it to
compile without warnings using the ANSI C compiler I had to make a few
modifications.
* Added a section to the README file describing the two sites where mp
is available via anon ftp.
* From Lars P. Fischer <fischer@iesd.auc.dk>
It would nice with a PREFIX variable of some sort for PATH's in the
makefile, so that you don't have to edit "/usr/local" to /home/pd or
whatever in three lines. This is a very minor hassle, of course.
* From Rainer Klute <klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
In the Makefile the macro PROLOGUE is not set by default. If mp is
installed in the standard places this is no problem, but if it is
installed somewhere else mp still searches for the prolog files in
/usr/local/lib. Setting PROLOGUE to -DPROLOGUE=\"$(MPLIBDIR)\" by
default seems reasonable in any case.
* From Rainer Klute <klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Fix for the -fp (Franklin Planner) prologue output.
* From Fulvio Marino <fulvio@ssuxos.ICO.OLIVETTI.COM>
The A4 paper size is 210x297 mm, NOT 8.5x11.4 inches.
* From Rainer Klute <klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Mp prints one line more on each page than specified by %%PageLength,
except the first page.
v2.5 - patchlevel 3 - 21st January 1992.
* Removed the check of the OPENWINHOME environment variable for the
location of the mp prologue files. This is confusing and is only
really needed for the OpenWindows version of mp. Also removed two
small sections for the Makefile.dist file, which are not needed for
the non-OpenWindows version.
* Added a section to the README, containing information on possible
trouble shooting hints for mp.
* From John Macdonald <mauxci!eci386!jmm@apple.com>
Added a comment to the prologue files, and an item in the trouble
shooting section, to provide possible further pointers with regards
to the setscreen black magic.
* From David W. Sanderson <dws@cs.wisc.edu>
Slight fixups to the mp manual pages including replacing ".LP" with
".PP" throughout, since ".LP" is just a symonym for ".PP" anyway.
* From David W. Sanderson <dws@cs.wisc.edu>
Included a significantly revised version of mailp. Changes include:
- Adjusted mailp to only supply a -P argument if $PRINTER is set, rather
than forcing a -Pps if PRINTER is not set. I don't have a printer named
"ps".
- mailp accepts -P and -d arguments, which are passed on to lpr or lp.
They set PRINTER and LPDEST respectively.
* From Lupe Christoph <lupe@alanya.Germany.Sun.COM>
From Meinhard Kniffki <Meinhard.Kniffki@Germany.Sun.COM>
Problems printing with the -ts Time/System print option, when printing
more than one page. The second and subsequent pages were not scaled down
in size.
* Fixed up two occurances of strchr that were used directly, instead of
index (which can be changed to strchr via the Makefile definition
NOINDEX).
* From Peter J. Ebbelink <pe@asd.tes.nl>
When using mp together with the elm mail frontend, there is a slight
problem with the output: elm uses a format for it's printer output that
is slightly different from the normal folder format. To be specific:
It lacks the UNIX "From " line and adds a formfeed after each message.
This is done for those who miss the comfort of mp. When sending a single
message to the printer this turn out mighty good, but when tagging some
messages to be printed in one turn, the bold "From: ", "To: ",
"Subject: " and "Date: " turn out in normal message body font.
I've added a commandline option -e that expect the input to be formatted
according to the elm intermediate file format, rather than the standard
folder format. mp can be invoked from within elm by setting up elm using
o)ptions P)rint mail using, and then specifying "mp -e %s | lpr"
* Put the LIBDIR and BINDIR sections back in the manual pages and mailp.
Renamed mp.1 to mp.man, added the sed section to Makefile.dist. Updated
MANIFEST and FILES.
* From Rainer Klute <klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
When using mp with Ghostscript and a heavy-duty (ca. 50 pages/minute)
PostScript-less laser printer it turned out that a single page generated
by mp took 2-3 minutes to print. Obviously the "sf" before each text line
is a very expensive operation in our configuration. I fixed the problem
by only outputting an "sf" at the beginning of the page, after the
headers.
* From David W. Smith <dws@dbsoft.com>
Support for the Franklin Planner personal organiser. Prologue file is
mp.pro.fp.ps, command line option is -fp. Updates to mailp, mp.man,
Makefile.dist, FILES and MANIFEST.
It also works for the intermediate size of the Day Timer(tm) system.
By moving the holes, this prologue can be made to work with the
DayRunner(tm) and a number of the other half-size page systems.
To some extent, magic numbers have been replaced by units in inches.
* Added in a manual page for mailp, in both troff/nroff format and plain
text.
* Adjust the "shar" section of Makefile.dist, to create shars of a size
that can be posted to comp.sources.misc.
* Updated the TODO file with the list of outstanding problems received
via mail in the last eighteen months.
v2.5 - patchlevel 2 - 10th January 1992.
* From Donn Fisher (Donn.Fisher@Eng.Sun.COM)
Two small adjustments to the mp.1 manual pages to correctly print.
* Changed the default landscape mode to work like a 2up version of the
normal print mode. The previous version of the landscape mode has been
moved to mp.pro.altl.ps, for those who prefer that capability. The
PostScript for mp.pro.l.ps can certainly be improved. I'm no PostScript
expert. Fixes the following problems:
From Michael J. Tuchiarone <tooch@plan9.Sun.COM>
With landscape mode: There are a few things I don't like still, and chief
among them is that the last page printed "wins" and gets its subject
printed in the banner. It actually should (I think) be either the
left-hand message, or better yet, if the subjects are different then
print a different subject under each message.
From Andreas Wettengel <nixhhs!andreas@relay.EU.net>
I would like to be able to specify an offset within a logical page.
If you print in landscape mode, the text of the second page starts
at the left edge of the page, which prevents you from cutting the
paper in halves and putting each half into a folder.
From John Macdonald <mtxinu!uunet.UU.NET!jmm%eci386@Sun.COM>
With the landscape format, I am tempted to put a separate subject
box at the top of each set of columns that have a different column.
Thus, for a digest, there would be a subject header for each item
in the digest, not just the ones that were current during a left
most logical page.
v2.5 - patchlevel 1 - 6th January 1992.
* Inverted the order of entries in the CHANGES file. The latest patch is
now at the beginning of the file.
* From John Macdonald <mtxinu!uunet.UU.NET!jmm%eci386@Sun.COM>
Included two new prologue files. These have become the defaults
for mp.pro.ps and mp.pro.l.ps, and the previous versions of these
files have been moved to mp.pro.old and mp.pro.l.old.
* Integrated the changes needed to compile mp in the Open Windows build
into the generic Makefile.dist file.
* Adjusted the entry that make mp in Makefile.dist to add write
permission to mp.1 before sed edits it, just in case it's under SCCS
control at the time.
* Removed the credits section from the initial comment in main.c. The
credits are part of the acknowledgement section in the README file.
* From Francois Ougier <ougier@saphir.cl.bull.fr>
I'm not a PostScript expert, but the way CharStrings is used seems to
inhibit the font cache machinery; this may cause the abort. However, I
found a solution in the Adobe's red book which works on my LaserWriter.
It uses the Metrics dictionary.
* From Michael J. Tuchiarone <tooch@plan9.Sun.COM>
NeWS/OpenWindows does not implement the CharStrings dictionary.
Therefore /backspacefont doesn't work correctly. Need to generate a
NeWS/OW compatible version of CourierBack.
* From Hardy <hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu>
Mp has problem printing with the NeXT printer driver, which is more
finicky about PostScript. Whenever I printed something to it (either
directly, or remotely from the HP-machines), I ended up with an
"invalid restore" message.
* From Dennis Linse <djlinse@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Due to an apparent error when using mp (patchlevel 14) on a NeXT, I
investigated the prologue code a little and found a bit of bad
PostScript. The /backspace function used for CourierBack leaves a
dictionary on the PostScript operand stack. When a file is printed on
a NeXT using the most recent operating system (OS2.1), this leftover
dictionary causes an 'invalidrestore' PostScript error when printed.
One way to fix this is to add a pop as the last item in the definition
of the /backspace function.
* From Andy Hall <andyh@ncduk.com>
Running on a Sparcstation 1+ and with a Canon LBP8 mark 3 printer with
PS-1 Scriptcard. This is a true version 51.4 Adobe Interpreter. If I
print Unix manual pages using standard Nroff output and the mp.pro.ps
v1.2 prologue the job gets aborted after a few pages with a stackoverflow
message on the serial output (I am using serial interface). After a bit
of investigation using a small C program to produce lines consisting only
of a printed line number, a printable character, a backspace, an
underscore and a newline, it appears that the job gets aborted on the
page where the 500th backspace is. I am not a PostScript expert but I am
wondering whether the problem lies with the embedded piece of code
backspacefont.ps or the way it is used. It is rather too convoluted for
me to understand fully but my suspicions are aroused in that the default
operand stack size mentioned by Adobe in their red book is 500.
* From Bertrand Decouty <Bertrand.Decouty@irisa.fr>
Mp outputs 8-bit characters as one single character and not like \ijk
The prologue is not made to support ISO8859 character set. Fixes bug
#1078112.
v2.5 - patchlevel 0 - 20th November 1991.
* Reset patchlevel and incremented version number.
* Fixed up usage message.
* Added in two new command line options:
-US - use US paper size (8.5" x 11")
-A4 - use A4 paper size (8.5" x 11.4")
This causes an appropriate definition for /fullheight to be written
to standard output, over-riding the one in the PostScript prologue
file. Mp manual pages have been updated to reflect this change.
Fixes bugid #1070432.
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v2.4 - patchlevel 22. - 10th July 1991.
* Multiple space and/or tabs in the passwd gecos field or the NAME
environment variable were being processed incorrectly.
* Changed the grayscale level in mp.pro.ps and mp.pro.l.ps from .98 to
.88. This should printout much better on the Sun SparcPrinters.
v2.4 - patchlevel 21. - 9th July 1991.
* If a ^L (form-feed), is immediately followed by a line starting
with "From", and we are printing a mail folder (-m command line
option is set), then only page new page is done.
This functionality has been added at the request of the mailtool
team. Mailtool inserts ^L's between each mail message in a multiple
batch.
v2.4 - patchlevel 20. - 6th June 1991.
* Added in ANSI function prototypes for all the mp routines.
v2.4 - patchlevel 19. - 2nd May 1991.
* Changes needed to get mp to work under SVR4 (Zeus). There are no
SVR4 specifics; the same code runs unchanged under both SunOS v4.1.1
and SVR4.
v2.4 - patchlevel 18. - 18 April 1991.
* Mp has been modified so that all warning messages from the acc
compiler have been eliminated.
v2.4 - patchlevel 17. - 15 April 1991.
* mp.pro.ps and mp.pro.pl.ps were identical. Modified mp.pro.ps to be
for portrait mode. Bugid 1056540 can be closed.
v2.4 - patchlevel 16. - 1 March 1991.
* CRT 35 - Modified Makefile to install mailp.1 and create filep.1,
etc., links.
v2.4 - patchlevel 15. - 26 February 1991.
* Modified the mailp script to fix up the use of the PRINTER environment
variable, and to correctly handle the -h command line option (needed to
suppress the banner page).
* Added in a mailp.1 manual page.
v2.4 - patchlevel 14. - 1st November 1990.
* From Amos Shapir <amos@nsc.nsc.com>
From Felix Ingrand <felix@ai.sri.com>
From Mike Khaw <khaw@parcplace.com>
From Ken Hayman <hayman@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
From John Macdonald <mtxinu!uunet.UU.NET!jmm%eci386@Sun.COM>
mp was no longer correctly recognising "from " header lines. This was
a bug in hdr_equal(), and affected the default mode of mail printing.
I've used a replacement hdr_equal() routine from Amos, which only
scans the string once instead of four times.
* From Mike Khaw <khaw@parcplace.com>
From yonkers@ncsc.org
In our environment the "newfile" code causes the Apple laserwriter NTX's
to barf. This is a page reversal problem, with the PostScript routine
newfile being undefined. All references to newfile and endfile have
been removed from the prologue files and the mp program. The routine
startfile() has been left in as a null routine for now.
* From Ian Hoyle <ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au>
There is a problem with allocation of memory via the realloc calls in
print.c, on an SGI box running Irix 3.2, due to rounding. I'm simply
allocated one extra byte in each of the realloc calls.
* From John Macdonald <mtxinu!uunet.UU.NET!jmm%eci386@Sun.COM>
Now that mp is case insensitive about mail headers, it was possible for
mail digests (ala comp.risks) and mail folders to be incorrectly
processed. If mp was finding a line beginning with "from ", it was
taking this as the start of a new message. A check has been added to
the folder and digest processing in printfile() in main.c, to only
proceed with new message processing, if the line in question matches
the test criteria *and* the first character is upper-case.
* From Francois Ougier <ougier@saphir.cl.bull.fr>
Just like pageno, colct should be reset (to 0) when looping for
argument files in main.c (line 164). Otherwise, when printing multiple
ascii files in landscape mode, the second column of each first page is
always empty..
* From Francois Ougier <ougier@saphir.cl.bull.fr>
The README file has been changed to suggest that a page length of 70
might be more useful to A4 sites, rather than 72, and to include that
86 seems a good value for LineLength in landscape mode for A4 paper.
v2.4 - patchlevel 13. - 3rd October 1990.
* The other PostScript prologue files need to be modified in a similar
way, to mp.pro.ps (changed in patch #12).
* The meaning of the -PS switch to mp has been reversed. If you don't
specify -PS on the command line, and mp finds a PostScript file as
the body of the message, then it will just dump it out. Specifying
-PS causes it to be printed as text.
* From Larry Virden <lwv27%CAS@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>
Further modifications to mailp:
- If the user had specified a flag of "-sThis is my subject" then it
wouldn't have printed correctly.
- If the user tries to print files with tabs or spaces in them there
would have been problems.
* From Larry Virden <lwv27%CAS@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>
Specifying "mp -o -F <mailfile" causes mp to dump core.
v2.4 - patchlevel 12. - 2nd October 1990.
* From Geoff Mulligan <mulligan@wrl.dec.com>
Added in the ability for mp to recognize mail or digest messages
which have PostScript as the text of the message and just dump it
out. As this might not be the preferred option for everybody, this
will only occur when the -PS command line option is given.
* From Geoff Mulligan <mulligan@wrl.dec.com>
Added more saving and restoring of the PostScript state in mp.pro.ps.
* From Bruno Pillard <bp@chorus.fr>
Modifications to mailp:
- changed the way control arguments (added -l) are checked
in mail, and the tricky "set -- -" to handle the stdin case.
* From Larry Virden <lwv27%CAS@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>
Modifications to Bruno's mailp:
- Move the -h out to a variable, so that the user can configure it
by setting a shell variable.
- Change the :- to - since some /bin/sh's do not handle :- properly
(at least Ultrix pre-4.0 does not handle it properly).
- Change the stdin processing so that if the user provides a -s flag
on the command line it is used, but if it is not, the default one
is used.
- Change the per file processing so that if the user provides a -s
flag on the command line it is used FOR ALL FILES, but if it is
not provided, the file name itself is used.
* From Bill Houle <bhoule@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Modified the mailp script to work on SysV which usually has no lpr.
* From Bruce Barnett <barnett@unclejack.crd.ge.com>
When you do a "make install", occurances of BINDIR in the mailp shell
script, are now replaced with the value of $(BINDIR) from the Makefile.
* From Larry Virden <lwv27%CAS@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>
Modifications to Makefile.dist
- Separated out the macro definitions from the compiler flags, and
combined these together in the CFLAGS definition.
- Used $(CC) instead of calling cc direct.
- Included the Saber-C source loading rule.
* From Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
The install command under SysV does not have the same parameter order
as the BSD one. I've replaced all the install commands in the Makefile
with their equivalent cp and chmods.
* From Paul Higgins <phiggins@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Mp is now case insensitive about mail header lines. The first word
of the line is now converted to lower-case before doing a comparison.
The first letter of each header is capitalised when printing.
v2.4 - patchlevel 11. - 24th September 1990.
* From Sato Toshihiko <sato@omphalos.bug.co.jp>
The names of the personal organiser prologue files in get_options()
in misc.c, was not changed to the new names in patch #10.
* From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
mp.1 should be built when you type "make". On many hosts, you must
install as root, but root lacks write privaledge to the working
directory because it's mounted via NFS.
* From Rick Rodgers <rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.EDU>
From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
When you do a "make", occurances of BINDIR in the mp.man manual pages,
are now replaced with the value of $(BINDIR) from the Makefile.
* From Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
Added the rule "install-a4" to Makefile.dist. If you do a "make
install-a4", mp is initially installed. This is then followed by
the prologue files being edited in situ, and adjusted for A4 sized
paper. The README file has been updated to mention this.
v2.4 - patchlevel 10. - 20th September 1990.
* Four files should have their names changed before applying this patch.
These are:
mp.pro.filofax.ps ==> mp.pro.ff.ps
mp.pro.timeman.ps ==> mp.pro.tm.ps
mp.pro.timesys.ps ==> mp.pro.ts.ps
mp.1 ==> mp.man
This is to make filenames < 14 chars, which is needed on SysV systems,
and also to prevent any possible problems with trademarked names.
If you are on a Unix machine, then you should first run the following
four commands:
mv mp.pro.filofax.ps mp.pro.ff.ps
mv mp.pro.timeman.ps mp.pro.tm.ps
mv mp.pro.timesys.ps mp.pro.ts.ps
mv mp.1 mp.man
If you are running mp on another O/S, then you should do the equivalent
of these four moves.
* From Jim Sanchez <syteke!jim@relay.EU.net>
Please reduce the file name length on the mp.pro.filofax and
mp.pro.timeman files for us system V guys. We are stuck with short file
names and have to edit the source files each time you issue a patch.
[Fixed by renaming the files as above - Rich].
* From Bruno Pillard <bp@chorus.fr>
The opportunity to change the location of the LIBDIR is given in the
Makefile, so you should update the Makefile to update the man page
accordingly; For example in the Makefile:
man:; sed -e s,LIBDIR,$$LIBDIR,g mp.man > mp.1
Of course, you have to change the name of mp.1 to mp.man in the
distribution and all occurrence of /usr/local/lib by LIBDIR.
* From Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
From Ian Young <YoungIM@cs.bham.ac.uk>
When compiled with gcc, mp -a falls over with a seg fault.
In print.c, there are two places where a string is being copied to
message_for, which is an inappropriate character pointer.
* From Andreas Wettengel <nixhhs!andreas@relay.EU.net>
the option string to get_opt() in get_options() in print.c has been
changed to allow "-t m" and "-t s" as well as '-tm" and "-ts".
* From Bruno Pillard <bp@chorus.fr>
Added into the README file, the instructions for A4 sites that they
have also to change the "%%PageLength" line in mp.pro.ps. In my
opinion, 72 seems to be a good value.
v2.4 - patchlevel 9. - 17th September 1990.
* From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
From Larry W. Virden <lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu>
From Rick Rodgers <rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.EDU>
The SunOS v4.1 /bin/make doesn't like blank lines half way through a
Makefile rule.
* From Larry W. Virden <lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu>
The SYSV definition was not added to the CFLAGS line in Makefile.dist.
It also needs to be added to the section in the README file, that
describes settable Makefile definitions.
* From Rick Gunderson <rickg@toshiba.tic.oz.au>
The mp.pro.ps file won't center the page number in the gray bar if
``leftedge'' is non-zero. We set left-edge to 0.5 inches so that there
is a margin at the left of the page for punched holes.
* From Larry W. Virden <lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu>
Some slight changes to the mailp shell script for -s subject handling.
* From Larry W. Virden <lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu>
From Rick Rodgers <rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.EDU>
Some adjustments to the mp manual pages.
* From Peter Collinson <pc@hillside.co.uk>
I have my own machine and printer and KNOW that the mail is for
me.. I would like to have the header say
Mail from ........
The -F flag has been added for this option. The manual page has also
been updated.
v2.4 - patchlevel 8. - 14th September 1990.
* From Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
Introduces another PostScript prologue file for the Time/System
International personal organiser. The prologue file is called
mp.pro.timesys.ps. The command line option to invoke Time Manager
output has been changed to -tm, and the Time/System output uses -ts.
The MANIFEST and FILES files have been updated to mention this new
file. The mailp shell script, Makefile.dist and mp manual pages
have been adjusted accordingly.
* Not everybody wants the newsp, filep ... shell scripts installed.
To prevent this, you will need to comment out some lines in your
Makefile (after you copy it from Makefile.dist). This is now explicitly
mentioned in the Makefile.dist file and in the README under the
installation section.
* The -v and the -? command line options now both output the current
mp version number and the usage message then exit.
* From Larry W. Virden <lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu>
Modifications to the mailp shell script to better handle the
printing of the subject lines. Added a comment to the shell script
to mention that banner printing is turned off by default. Most of
the banner information is handled in the mp banners. Certain sites
though, might wish to alter this by removing the -h switch to the
lpr command.
* From Bill Houle <bhoule@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Have added a SYSV definition to the Makefile.dist file which should
be uncommented if you are compiling mp on a System V machine.
In mp.h, compiling mp on an NCR Tower V.3 system, the compiler did
not like the #include for sys/pathname.h, so it's been eliminated.
[If this is a problem for any SysV sites, please let me know - Rich].
cc complained about redefinition of sprintf et al, which were
already defined in <string.h>. I fixed by bracketing with #ifndef:
To get rid of the annoying warnings about illegal structure operations,
I included definitions for getpwuid() and getpwnam(). On the SysV Tower
at least, <pwd.h> defines the passwd structure, but not the functions.
* From Larry W. Virden <lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu>
The sprintf hard coded externs are in conflict with at least the
SunOS 4.1 systme 5 declarations.
Line 225 of misc.c is : *ptr++ ;
Why? The * is never used - it just falls on the floor.
* From Jim Sanchez <syteke!jim@relay.EU.net>
Please reduce the file name length on the mp.pro.filofax and
mp.pro.timeman files for us system V guys. We are stuck with short
file names and have to edit the source files each time you issue a
patch.
[For now, I've detailed this problem in the TODO file. When the next
version of mp is released, I'll make sure that all the filenames are
below 14 characters - Rich].
v2.4 - patchlevel 7. - 7th September 1990.
* From Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
Completely revised how mp now does it's processing. See the new
section in the README file entitled "How mp works" for more details.
Introduces a new prologue file mp.pro.l.ps for handling the standard
printing in landscape mode with 2 columns. Changes to most other
files. The MANIFEST and FILES files have been updated.
* From James F. Blake <jim@doctor.chem.yale.edu>
From Rainer Klute <klute@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Mp crashed with a segmentation violation if the mail message has no
subject line.
* From Bruno Pillard <bp@chorus.fr>
Added the printing of the username beside the date when printing
news articles.
Fixed two typos in the mailp shell script, and added the installation
of mailp to the Makefile.dist file. Support for the PRINTER variable
has also been added to mailp.
* From Ran Ever-Hadani <nsc!taux01.nsc.com!crehta@Sun.COM>
When mp -a is invoked from within the nn news reader, the "Article
from" header was displayed incorrectly.
* From Lupe Christoph <lupe@alanya.Germany.Sun.COM>
The -f (filofax) and -t (Time Manager) options didn't print
correctly on a PostScript print which has page reversal set. Johan
Vromans work on the restructuring of the PostScript and the way
prologues are handled, has fixed this.
* From John Little <gaijin@ale.Japan.Sun.COM>
The NAME environment variable (if set) should be processed the same
way as the GECOS passwd field. See the GECOSFIELDS and GECOSLENGTH
definitions in Makefile.dist for more details.
v2.4 - patchlevel 6. - 4th September 1990.
* From Amos Shapir <amos@taux01.nsc.com>
Interpreting a '&' in the GECOS field should capitalize only the
first letter of the login name, not all of it.
* From Bruce G Barnett <barnett@unclejack.crd.ge.com>
From Pauline van Winsen <pauline@Aus.Sun.COM>
Mp only extracted two "words" from the user's passwd gecos field.
This has been changed to now extract three "words" by default, but
two new definitions have been added to the Makefile.dist file to
allow you to adjust the username extraction:
GECOSFIELDS - Number of "words" extracted from the user's gecos field.
GECOSLENGTH - Maximum no. of chars. extracted from the gecos field.
See the comments in the Makefile.dist file for more details.
If needed, then these options should be uncommented and set accordingly.
The README file has been updated.
* From Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
An attempt to initialise the cc array in main.c when the variable
is declared doesn't work with the GNU C compiler. This has been
removed. Yes folks, this is deja vu.
* From Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
To allow MP to handle A4 formatted pages, I made a few mods to
mp.pro.ps. The reason to introduce the variables fullwidth and
fullheight is that they are used in more than one location.
Reasonable values for fullwidth and fullheight are 8.5/11 inch for US
Letter, and 8.5/11.4 inch for A4.
Since sites usually have one single format of paper, mp could be
installed with either the USLetter or A4 values.
I've also made the same modifications to mp.pro.alt.ps.
**IMPORTANT NOTE** You should adjust these values correctly for your
site. I've added a couple of comments to the
"make install" to try to remind people about this.
I've also left it defaulted at the US Letter size, so it should still
continue to work for A4 sites, but not use all of the paper.
v2.4 - patchlevel 5. - 29th August 1990.
* Posted to comp.sources.misc.
* From Larry W. Virden <lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu>
Include a Makefile.dist with the mp distribution. This file will
need to be copied to Makefile and adjusted accordingly, but it does
mean that future changes via patches don't clash with custom user
changes. The README file has been updated to mention this.
* From Lupe Christoph <lupe@alanya.Germany.Sun.COM>
mp.pro.filofax.ps and mp.pro.timeman.ps still contained definitions
for PrimaryFont and SecondaryFont.
v2.4 - patchlevel 4. - 27th August 1990.
* From Mike Bundschuh <mjb@Eng.Sun.COM>
Added quick fix to expand() in print.c to check if pointer == NULL
v2.4 - patchlevel 3. - 17th August 1990.
* From Larry Tsui <larryt@Canada.Sun.COM>
With mp -o filename | lpr, the filename printed on the bottom bar
is missing the first character. The subject string setup at the end
of set_defs was incorrect.
* Gave mp a though linting (Sun 4/65 - SunOS v4.1).
v2.4 - patchlevel 2. - 14th August 1990.
* From Pierre Mareschal <pmaresch@hawk.ulowell.edu>
- Fix for multiple mail printing:
% mp [-a] file1 file2 file3 ... > mp.out
* Outputs the Prolog only once at the beginning of the file.
* Gives a correct page count at the end of the PostScript file
in the Trailer
* Shorten PostScript output (by more than 10%):
PrimaryFont -> pf
SecondaryFont -> sf
* Correct global subject line with -s "Subject" flag.
* Correct current subject line when multiple articles.
- Added another style for mp.pro.ps with the page number in lower
right corner. This file has been called mp.pro.alt.ps.
- Added Example directory (called Data) with the mp distribution. This
contains examples for Mail, Mail Folders, News Articles, News Digests
and a plain listing.
* Added a TODO file, with a list of the outstanding problems and
suggested enhancements.
* Added MANIFEST and FILES files, to provide a manifest of the
distributed files, plus a description of what each file does.
* From Roger Riggs <riggs@suneast.East.Sun.COM>
Created emacs functions for printing with mp. A new file (mp.el) has
been created.
v2.4 - patchlevel 1. - 1st June 1990.
* From Brachet <brachet@imag.fr>
Fix for segmentation violation core dump on a System V machine
when trying to print multiple news articles.
* From Brachet <brachet@imag.fr>
mp took only the first subject of a group of news articles
because it didn't parse the subject line properly.
v2.4 - patchlevel 0. - Started (april 1990).
* From Michael J. Tuchiarone <tooch@plan9.Sun.COM>
Support for landscape mode. This allows two pages printed per
sheet of paper.
v2.3 - patchlevel 5. - Posted to comp.sources.bugs (February 1990).
* From Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
From Rick Gunderson <rickg@toshiba.tic.oz.au>
Storage allocation for string constants is different with cc and
the GNU C compiler (gcc). Two adjustments in print.c are needed.
v2.3 - patchlevel 4. - Posted to comp.sources.bugs (January 1990).
* From Mike Khaw <khaw@parcplace.com>
The definition for NOINDEX in mp.h should be embedded in an
#ifdef not an #ifndef. Arrgghh!!
* The CHANGES file is now upto date.
* From Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
An attempt to initialise the cc array in main.c when the variable
is declared doesn't work with the GNU C compiler. This has been
removed.
v2.3 - patchlevel 3. - Posted to comp.sources.bugs (January 1990).
* The Makefile did not include the CHANGES file in the OTHERS
macro definition.
* From Steve Cliffe <steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz>
The new Makefile definition NOINDEX, needs to be included in
the CFLAGS definition.
* From Walter Underwood <wunder@hp-ses.sde.hp.com>
Several tweaks to the mp man page to correct print on Sys V
machines.
v2.3 - patchlevel 2. - Posted to comp.sources.bugs (January 1990).
Changes:
* From Steve Cliffe <steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz>
The Makefile used a technique for generating the object files,
from the source files, that not every make has.
* From Steve Cliffe <steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz>
Mp used both the index and strchr library calls. It now uses
index by default, and if you don't have this, then you need
to uncomment a macro definition NOINDEX in the Makefile (which
has just been added).
* From Brian Kohn <bicker@hoqax.att.com>
The variable MAXPATHLEN is not declared on all machines. An
appropriate definition has been added to the mp.h file.
New files:
* CHANGES - documented history of the changes made with each new
mp patch.
v2.3 - patchlevel 1. - Released to comp.sources.misc (January 1990).