From 7379ff1546ba2feaabe8b6463f448ea0bafd69bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shantonu Sen Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:00:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Marked deprecated directories in layout description, and added an entry for docs --- docs/README.developers | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/README.developers b/docs/README.developers index 74c3c07..4400071 100644 --- a/docs/README.developers +++ b/docs/README.developers @@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ config/ Contains utility files for the `configure' process. Ordinarily nothing in here needs to be messed with. +doc/ + Contains more specialized documentation, such as this file and + the FAQ. + etc/ Contains files, file templates, and scripts to generate files that will be installed in the ${prefix}/etc directory. Stuff like replcomps. @@ -92,11 +96,11 @@ mts/ "mts" stands for "Message Transfer Service". Source files specific to the different MTSs go in the subdirectories. -mts/mmdf/ +mts/mmdf/ (deprecated) "mmdf" stands for "Multichannel Memorandum Distribution Facility". It is an alternative to sendmail used primarily on SCO UNIX. -mts/sendmail/ +mts/sendmail/ (deprecated: handled by mts.conf) When nmh is configured --with-mts=sendmail, the files in this directory are used. @@ -117,26 +121,26 @@ uip/ sbr.c which contains additional subroutines called from .c (which would contain not much else besides main()). -zotnet/ +zotnet/ (deprecated) Files in this hierarchy were either written by or moved here by UCI (University of California, Irvine) after they took over MH from the Rand Corporation. "Zot!" is the sound effect made by the anteater in the "B.C." comic strip when its tongue lashes out at ants. The anteater is UCI's official mascot. Not sure whether UCInet was once called ZotNet... -zotnet/bboards/ +zotnet/bboards/ (deprecated) UCI added Bulletin Board functionality to MH with the `bbc' command. This functionality has been removed from nmh but apparently files in this directory are still needed for other purposes. -zotnet/mf/ +zotnet/mf/ (deprecated, now in sbr/) "mf" stands for "Mail Filter". The filtering in this case apparently refers to translation between different address and mailbox formats. -zotnet/mts/ +zotnet/mts/ (deprecated, now in sbr/) MTS code not specific to any single MTS apparently goes here. -zotnet/tws/ +zotnet/tws/ (deprecated, now in sbr/) "tws" apparently stands for "time with structure", a rather odd phrase. This directory used to be the place for date and time manipulation code, but currently nothing in here is compiled. There are new, more portable -- 1.7.10.4