Improve the documentation for "send" a bit in terms of how it maps file

[mmh] / MACHINES

diff --git a/MACHINES b/MACHINES
index 06a1cd6..853140d 100644 (file)
--- a/MACHINES
+++ b/MACHINES
@@ -1,18 +1,16 @@
 #
 # MACHINE -- operating system specific information
 #
-# $Id$
-#
 
 nmh is known to compile on the following platforms (save the
 exceptions noted below), using an ANSI C compiler, such as gcc.
 
 AIX 4.1.5.0.01
+Cygwin, setup version 2.763 (though it does not run correctly, see below)
 FreeBSD
 IRIX 6.5
-Linux 2.2 and 2.3 (glibc 2.1)
-Linux 2.4 (glibc 2.2)
-Mac OS X Public Beta
+Linux 2.2 to current (glibc 2.1 to current)
+Mac OS X
 NetBSD 1.4.2
 OpenBSD
 Solaris 7 and 8 (sparc,x86)
@@ -42,6 +40,16 @@ option. It appears to find conflicts in the headers only when debugging
 is disabled. With debugging enabled, it compiles and runs happily.
 
 --------------------------------------
+Cygwin:
+
+Be sure to install Cygwin package libncurses-devel, in the Devel or
+Libs category.  And libncurses10 or later in the Lib category.
+
+Which nmh builds on Cygwin, not all of its programs operate.  If
+you're willing to help fix them, please contact the nmh maintainters
+at nmh-workers@nongnu.org.
+
+--------------------------------------
 HPUX:
 
 Lots of problems have been reported with using HPUX `cc'.  In particular,
@@ -86,7 +94,7 @@ match. There isn't another safe and portable way to do this at the
 moment. An explicit cast would get rid of the warnings, but I think
 it's better to leave it complaining for now until we come up with
 a better solution. The whole thing is probablly going to be chucked
-with UTC-8 support anyway.
+with UTF-8 support anyway.
 
 Other than the warnings, it builds ok.
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@@ -94,7 +102,9 @@ SunOS 4.1.1/4.1.3/4.1.4:
 
 You can't use the C compiler that comes with SunOS 4 since
 it isn't ANSI C.  But nmh builds just fine with gcc. With
---enable-debug you will see a lot of warnings. 
+--enable-debug you will see a lot of warnings.
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-
+--
+The nmh team
+nmh-workers@nongnu.org