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MsgEd TE 6.3 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. In the following files, ??? must be replaced by the version number, e.g. 600 for version ‘6.0.0’.
This archive contains an OS/2 executable, sample configuration files and a manual in OS/2 INF format.
This archive contains a 16-Bit DOS executable, sample configuration files and a manual in plain text format.
This archive contains a 32-Bit DPMI DOS executable, sample configuration files and a manual in plain text format.
This archive contains a Windows 32 bit console executable that should be your primary choice when running Windows NT or 2000, sample configuration files and a manual in HTML format.
This archive contains a statically linked, pre-compiled Linux executable, sample configuration files and a manual in GNU info format.
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.
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 Tru64 Unix), 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.
For compiling MsgEd TE, you also need the ‘smapi’ library. The ‘fidoconfig’ library is not needed, MsgEd TE can now parse Fidoconfig without need for this library. The versions of ‘smapi’ libary that can be used to build MsgEd TE 6.3 are:
or any other version from this stable branch
Attention: Most of these ZIP-files contain subdirectories, so you should use the ‘-d’ option when unzipping them with pkunzip.!