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<H1>MH & nmh: Road Map</H1>
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Don't be intimidated by the size of this book: You can use MH, <EM>xmh</EM>,
<EM>exmh</EM> or mh-e right away by reading the quick-start tutorials.
The rest of the book is here to help you do much more,
but you don't have to read it all!
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<H2>Need to get started in a hurry?</H2>
If you aren't sure which of this book's four email systems you'd like
to start with, read the Section on
<A HREF="overall/howwor.htm#EmaUsAge">Email User Agents</A>.
Do the short
<A HREF="overall/ch-su.htm">MH setup</A>.
Then choose a quick-start tutorial:
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<LI>
<A HREF="mh/ch-ttm.htm">MH</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="xmh/ch-ttx.htm"><EM>xmh</EM></A>
<LI>
<A HREF="mh-e/tour.html">mh-e</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="exmh/ch-ie.htm"><EM>exmh</EM></A>
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If you find that you need more email basics, refer the book's
<A HREF="overall/tocs/intro.htm">Introductory Chapter</A>.
<H2>Want more details?</H2>
The book has a system of cross-reference links to help you find related
information quickly. Each tutorial ends with a list of features and
frequently-asked questions.
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Detailed reference charts summarize commands for
<A HREF="mh/mhrg.htm">MH</A>,
<A HREF="exmh/exmhrg.htm"><EM>exmh</EM></A>,
<A HREF="xmh/xmhrg.htm"><EM>xmh</EM></A>,
<A HREF="mh-e/mherg.html">mh-e</A>, and
<A HREF="overall/mimerg.htm">MIME</A>.
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If you'd like to know many or all of the features of a particular
system, read the part of the book that applies; use the table of contents
or the index to find the part you want, and search for key words or
titles with your browser's "search" command. Because mh-e, <EM>xmh</EM>, and
<EM>exmh</EM> are interfaces to MH, you'll get a better understanding of a
system by reading about the parts of MH that apply to it. Special
tables of contents point you to all MH book sections (not just the main
Parts) that apply to
<A HREF="exmh/tocs/exmh.htm">exmh</A> and
<A HREF="xmh/tocs/xmh.htm">xmh</A>.
(The mh-e pages are made automatically; sorry, but the converter doesn't make
constant links we can point to.)
<P>
Although this book has plenty of information that isn't in your online
MH and <EM>xmh</EM> manual pages, those manual pages have some details that
we've omitted from the book. The MH system has some 50 individual
manual pages of its own; the <EM>mh</EM>(1) manual page summarizes them.
The mh-e and <EM>exmh</EM> online documentation is related to their parts
of this book, though the book has cross-references and figures that
aren't in the documentation. The <A HREF="overall/ap-rl.htm">Reference List</A>
points to Internet standards and other books that will build a framework to
help you get the most from your email system.
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<EM>Last change $Date: 1999/10/10 05:14:05 $</EM>
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This file is from the third edition of the book <I>MH & xmh: Email
for Users & Programmers</I>, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek.
Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
This file is freely available; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see
<A HREF="copying.htm">the file <I>copying.htm</I></A>.
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