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