INSTALL never documented the etc/*.old thing. Documented the new etc/*.prev

thing (including a note to watch for diff output).

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 69f94ea..1f74081 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Fri May 30 17:18:22 2000 Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net>
+Fri May 30 17:51:48 2000 Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net>
 
        * etc/Makefile.in was incorrectly installing mts.conf.in and
        sendfiles.in -- fixed.  Changed the suffix for the backed-up
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Fri May 30 17:18:22 2000 Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net>
        redirect output to /dev/null so you'll notice when your changed
        versions are getting moved aside).
 
+       * INSTALL never documented the etc/*.old thing.  Documented the
+       new etc/*.prev thing (including a note to watch for diff output).
+
 Mon May 29 7:48:15 2000 Shantonu Sen <ssen@mit.edu>
 
        * Moved the date parsing routines from zotnet/tws to sbr/ (and

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 63021e4..ca45be7 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc.
 
 4) make install
 
+   Note that if you have [n]mh files in your install directories with the same
+   names as the files being installed, the old ones will get overwritten without
+   any warning.  The only directory that isn't true for is the `etc' directory
+   -- in that directory, the previous copy of each <file> will be backed up as
+   <file>.prev if it differs from the newly-installed copy.  Watch for any diff
+   output while make is processing that directory to see if you need to merge
+   changes from *.prev files into the new versions.
+
 5) Edit the file `mts.conf' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory)
    and make any necessary changes for the mail transport interface
    you are using.