2.1 Which Distribution Archives do I need?

MsgEd TE 05 is shipped in various distribution archives. This section describes the contents of each. You normally do only need one of these files containing the executable and documentation for your platform, and maybe the file that contains the printable version of the documentation.

`MSGTE5_O.ZIP'

This archive contains an OS/2 executable, sample configuration files and a manual in OS/2 INF format.

`MSGTE5_D.ZIP'

This archive contains a 16-Bit DOS executable, sample configuration files and a manual in plain text format.

`MSGTE5_3.ZIP'

This archive contains a 32-Bit DPMI DOS executable, sample configuration files and a manual in plain text format.

`MSGTE5_W.ZIP'

This archive contains a Windows 32 bit executable that has been tested on Windows NT, but should also work with Windows 95 and 98, sample configuration files and a manual in HTML format.

`MSGTE5_L.ZIP'

This archive contains a statically linked, pre-compiled Linux executable, sample configuration files and a manual in HTML format.

`MSGTE5_M.ZIP'

This archive contains the manual for MsgEd TE in Postscript and in HTML format. If you intend to print the documentation of MsgEd TE, then you should get this file and use the Postscript version, because printing the Postscript version of the manual (by copying it to the printer port of a postscript capable printer, or by using Ghostscript) will result in the best possible output that looks much nicer than if you would print the HTML or plain text documentations.

`MSGTE5_S.ZIP'

This archive contains the complete C source code for MsgEd TE, out-of-the-box makefiles for building MsgEd TE on DOS, OS/2, Windows, and almost every imaginable Unix-like system (tested systems include Linux, FreeBSD and IBM AIX), sample configuration files, and the texinfo source code for the manual that can be used to build the manual in OS/2 INF, HTML, GNU info or DVI format. You will also need `SMAPISS.ZIP' if you intend to compile MsgEd TE yourself.

`SMAPISS.ZIP'

This archive contains a snapshot of the source code level of the SMAPI (alternative Squish Message API) that has been used to compile the binary versions of MsgEd TE 05. Note that bug reports for MsgEd TE are only considered if you used exactly this version of the SMAPI to compile MsgEd TE or a newer version obtained from the Linux Fidosoft Project. All other versions of the SMAPI (that is `SMAPI11.ZIP' through `SMAPI15.ZIP') have severe bugs that make it impossible for this version of MsgEd TE to function properly under all circumstances.

Attention: Most of these ZIP-files contain subdirectories, so you should use the `-d' option when unzipping them!

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