4 .TH INSTALL-MH %manext8% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
6 install-mh \- initialize the nmh environment
10 .B %libdir%/install\-mh
20 program to create the initial setup
25 lives in two places for historical reasons.
27 The \fB\-auto\fP option does things as automatically as possible and
28 makes \fBinstall\-mh\fP less chatty.
31 for the name of the directory that will be designated as the user's
33 directory. If this directory does not exist, the user is
34 asked if it should be created. Normally, this directory should be
35 under the user's home directory, and has the default name of
46 first checks for the existence of the \fB$MH\fP environment variable
47 since that gives the profile path if set.
50 environment variable is consulted to determine the user's home directory.
57 When creating the users initial
58 .IR \&.mh\(ruprofile ,
60 will check for the existence of a global profile
61 .IR %etcdir%/mh.profile .
62 If found, this will be used to initialize the new
63 .IR \&.mh\(ruprofile .
65 The \fB\-check\fP option can be used to check whether or not nmh has
67 This can be used by other programs to determine whether or not nmh has
68 been installed without their having to know the internals of nmh.
73 .ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName 'u
74 ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
75 ^%etcdir%/mh.profile~^Used to initialize user profile
78 .SH "PROFILE COMPONENTS"
82 .ta \w'ExtraBigProfileName 'u
83 ^Path:~^To set the user's nmh directory
89 the current folder is changed to
90 .RI \*(lq inbox \*(rq.