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 fns-*
+*.ps
+*.log

etc/3B-MAXMEM

+Date: Mon, 16 Feb 87 15:04:41 EST
+From: katinsky@gauss.rutgers.edu (David Katinsky)
+To: rms@prep.ai.mit.edu
+Subject: 3b2 procedure to raise MAXMEM
+
+Below is the procedure I followed to allow enough memory for GnuEmacs to run
+on my 3b2/400. The end result of this is that a process can snarf up to 2Mb
+of memory. This can be a bit dangerous on a 2Mb machine, but I tried it and 
+it worked ok.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+In the simplest case, these are the procedures to reconfigure a 3bx kernel.
+
+
+
+1] cd /etc/master.d
+
+`ls` shows the files to be:
+
+README   ctc*     hdelog   idisk    ipc      iuart    kernel   mau
+mem      msg      ports*   prf      sem      shm      stubs    sxt
+sys      xt
+
+2] Edit the file which contains the parameter[s] you wish to change.
+In the following excerpt from /etc/master.d/kernel the value MAXMEM
+was raised from 256 to 1024.
+
+In V.3.0 and later releases, the parameter in question is MAXUMEM
+instead of MAXMEM.
+
+
+	*
+	* The following entries form the tunable parameter table.
+	*
+
+
+	NCALL = 30
+	NPROC = 60
+	NTEXT = 58
+	NCLIST = 188
+	* maxmem is number of pages (2K) was 256 --dmk
+	MAXMEM = 1024
+	MAXUP = 25
+	* hashbuf must be a power of 2
+	NHBUF = 128
+	NPBUF = 8
+
+3] cd /boot
+
+4] mkboot -k KERNEL
+
+5] shutdown -i5 -g0 -y
+
+This will take the machine down and bring it back up into firmware
+mode. When you see that the machine has reached this state, type the
+firmware password (default=mcp). The machine will ask for the name of
+a program to execute. At this prompt enter /etc/system . The machine
+should start to boot and display its configuration data.
+
+
+
+8701271222					dmk
+
+						[katinsky@topaz.rutgers.edu]
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+I do not feel that having the default firmware password is a
+problem... but if you wish to edit it out, feel free.
+
+						dmk
+
+

etc/BABYL

+Format of Version 5 Babyl Files:
+
+Warning:
+
+    This was written Tuesday, 12 April 1983 (by Eugene Ciccarelli),
+based on looking at a particular Babyl file and recalling various
+issues.  Therefore it is not guaranteed to be complete, but it is a
+start, and I will try to point the reader to various Babyl functions
+that will serve to clarify certain format questions.
+
+    Also note that this file will not contain control-characters,
+but instead have two-character sequences starting with Uparrow.
+Unless otherwise stated, an Uparrow <character> is to be read as
+Control-<character>, e.g. ^L is a Control-L.
+
+Versions:
+
+    First, note that each Babyl file contains in its BABYL OPTIONS
+section the version for the Babyl file format.  In principle, the
+format can be changed in any way as long as we increment the format
+version number; then programs can support both old and new formats.
+
+    In practice, version 5 is the only format version used, and the
+previous versions have been obsolete for so long that Emacs does not
+support them.
+
+
+Overall Babyl File Structure:
+
+    A Babyl file consists of a BABYL OPTIONS section followed by
+0 or more message sections.  The BABYL OPTIONS section starts
+with the line "BABYL OPTIONS:".  Message sections start with
+Control-Underscore Control-L Newline.  Each section ends
+with a Control-Underscore.  (That is also the first character
+of the starter for the next section, if any.)  Thus, a three
+message Babyl file looks like:
+
+BABYL OPTIONS:
+...the stuff within the Babyl Options section...
+^_^L
+...the stuff within the 1st message section...
+^_^L
+...the stuff within the 2nd message section...
+^_^L
+...the stuff within the last message section...
+^_
+
+    Babyl is tolerant about some whitespace at the end of the
+file -- the file may end with the final ^_ or it may have some
+whitespace, e.g. a newline, after it.
+
+
+The BABYL OPTIONS Section:
+
+    Each Babyl option is specified on one line (thus restricting
+string values these options can currently have).  Values are
+either numbers or strings.  The format is name, colon, and the
+value, with whitespace after the colon ignored, e.g.:
+
+Mail: ~/special-inbox
+
+    Unrecognized options are ignored.
+
+    Here are those options and the kind of values currently expected:
+
+    MAIL		Filename, the input mail file for this
+			Babyl file.  You may also use several file names
+			separated by commas.
+    Version		Number.  This should always be 5.
+    Labels		String, list of labels, separated by commas.
+
+
+Message Sections:
+
+    A message section contains one message and information
+associated with it.  The first line is the "status line", which
+contains a bit (0 or 1 character) saying whether the message has
+been reformed yet, and a list of the labels attached to this
+message.  Certain labels, called basic labels, are built into
+Babyl in a fundamental way, and are separated in the status line
+for convenience of operation.  For example, consider the status
+line:
+
+1, answered,, zval, bug,
+
+    The 1 means this message has been reformed.  This message is
+labeled "answered", "zval", and "bug".  The first, "answered", is
+a basic label, and the other two are user labels.  The basic
+labels come before the double-comma in the line.  Each label is
+preceded by ", " and followed by ",".  (The last basic label is
+in fact followed by ",,".)  If this message had no labels at all,
+it would look like:
+
+1,,
+
+    Or, if it had two basic labels, "answered" and "deleted", it
+would look like:
+
+1, answered, deleted,, zval, bug,
+
+    The & Label Babyl Message knows which are the basic labels.
+Currently they are:  deleted, unseen, recent, and answered.
+
+    After the status line comes the original header if any.
+Following that is the EOOH line, which contains exactly the
+characters "*** EOOH ***" (which stands for "end of original
+header").  Note that the original header, if a network format
+header, includes the trailing newline.  And finally, following the
+EOOH line is the visible message, header and text.  For example,
+here is a complete message section, starting with the message
+starter, and ending with the terminator:
+
+^_^L
+1,, wordab, eccmacs,
+Date: 11 May 1982 21:40-EDT
+From: Eugene C. Ciccarelli <ECC at MIT-AI>
+Subject: notes
+To: ECC at MIT-AI
+
+*** EOOH ***
+Date: Tuesday, 11 May 1982  21:40-EDT
+From: Eugene C. Ciccarelli <ECC>
+To:   ECC
+Re:   notes
+
+Remember to pickup check at cashier's office, and deposit it
+soon.  Pay rent.
+^_
+
+;;; Babyl File BNF:
+
+;;; Overall Babyl file structure:
+
+
+Babyl-File	::= Babyl-Options-Section  (Message-Section)*
+
+
+;;; Babyl Options section:
+
+
+Babyl-Options-Section
+		::= "BABYL OPTIONS:" newline (Babyl-Option)* Terminator
+
+Babyl-Option	::= Option-Name ":" Horiz-Whitespace BOptValue newline
+
+BOptValue	::= Number | 1-Line-String
+
+
+
+;;; Message section:
+
+
+Message-Section	::= Message-Starter  Status-Line  Orig-Header
+		    EOOH-Line  Message  Terminator
+
+Message-Starter	::= "^L" newline
+
+Status-Line	::= Bit-Char  ","  (Basic-Label)* "," (User-Label)* newline
+
+Basic-Label	::= Space  BLabel-Name  ","
+
+User-Label	::= Space  ULabel-Name  ","
+
+EOOH-Line	::= "*** EOOH ***" newline
+
+Message		::= Visible-Header  Message-Text
+
+
+;;; Utilities:
+
+Terminator	::= "^_"
+
+Horiz-Whitespace
+		::= (Space | Tab)*
+
+Bit-Char	::= "0" | "1"

etc/CENSORSHIP

+		Censoring my Software
+		   Richard Stallman
+			[From Datamation, 1 March 1996]
+
+
+Last summer, a few clever legislators proposed a bill to "prohibit
+pornography" on the Internet.  Last fall, right-wing Christians made
+this cause their own.  Last week, President Clinton signed the bill,
+and we lost the freedom of the press for the public library of the
+future.  This week, I'm censoring GNU Emacs.
+
+No, GNU Emacs does not contain pornography.  It is a software package,
+an award-winning extensible and programmable text editor.  But the law
+that was passed applies to far more than pornography.  It prohibits
+"indecent" speech, which can include anything from famous poems, to
+masterpieces hanging in the Louvre, to advice about safe sex...to
+software.
+
+Naturally, there was a lot of opposition to this bill.  Not only from
+people who use the Internet, and people who appreciate erotica, but
+from everyone who cares about freedom of the press.
+
+But every time we tried to tell the public what was at stake, the
+forces of censorship responded with a lie: they told the public that
+the issue was simply pornography.  By embedding this lie as a
+presupposition in their statements about the issue, they succeeded in
+misinforming the public.  So here I am, censoring my software.
+
+You see, Emacs contains a version of the famous "doctor program",
+a.k.a. Eliza, originally developed by Professor Weizenbaum at MIT.
+This is the program that imitates a Rogerian psychotherapist.  The
+user talks to the program, and the program responds--by playing back
+the user's own statements, and by recognizing a long list of
+particular words.
+
+The Emacs doctor program was set up to recognize many common curse
+words, and respond with an appropriately cute message such as, "Would
+you please watch your tongue?" or "Let's not be vulgar."  In order to
+do this, it had to have a list of curse words.  That means the source
+code for the program was indecent.
+
+Because of the censorship law, I had to remove this feature.  (I
+replaced it with a message announcing that the program has been
+censored for your protection.)  The new version of the doctor doesn't
+recognize the indecent words.  If you curse at it, it curses right
+back to you--for lack of knowing better.
+
+Now that people are facing the threat of two years in prison for
+indecent network postings, it would be helpful if they could access
+precise rules via the Internet for how to avoid imprisonment.
+However, this is impossible.  The rules would have to mention the
+forbidden words, so posting them on the Internet would be against the
+rules.
+
+Of course, I'm making an assumption about just what "indecent" means.
+I have to do this, because nobody knows for sure.  The most obvious
+possibile meaning is the meaning it has for television, so I'm using
+that as a tentative assumption.  However, there is a good chance that
+our courts will reject that interpretation of the law as
+unconstitutional.
+
+We can hope that the courts will recognize the Internet as a medium of
+publication like books and magazines.  If they do, they will entirely
+reject any law prohibiting "indecent" publications on the Internet.
+
+What really worries me is that the courts might take a muddled
+in-between escape route--by choosing another interpretation of
+"indecent", one that permits the doctor program or a statement of the
+decency rules, but prohibits some of the books that children can
+browse through in the public library and the bookstore.  Over the
+years, as the Internet replaces the public library and the bookstore,
+some of our freedom of the press will be lost.
+
+Just a few weeks ago, another country imposed censorship on the
+Internet.  That was China.  We don't think well of China in this
+country--its government doesn't respect basic freedoms.  But how well
+does our government respect them?  And do you care enough to preserve
+them here?
+
+If you care, stay in touch with the Voters Telecommunications Watch.
+Look in their Web site http://www.vtw.org/ for background information
+and political action recommendations.  Censorship won in February, but
+we can beat it in November.
+
+
+Copyright 1996 Richard Stallman
+Verbatim copying and distribution is permitted in any medium
+provided this notice is preserved.

etc/CHARSETS

+#########################
+## LIST OF CHARSETS
+## Each line corresponds to one charset.
+## The following attributes are listed in this order
+## separated by a colon `:' in one line.
+##	CHARSET-SYMBOL-NAME,
+##	CHARSET-ID,
+##	DIMENSION (1 or 2)
+##	CHARS (94 or 96)
+##	BYTES (of multibyte form: 1, 2, 3, or 4),
+##	WIDTH (occupied column numbers: 1 or 2),
+##	DIRECTION (0:left-to-right, 1:right-to-left),
+##	ISO-FINAL-CHAR (character code of ISO-2022's final character)
+##	ISO-GRAPHIC-PLANE (ISO-2022's graphic plane, 0:GL, 1:GR)
+##	DESCRIPTION (describing string of the charset)
+tibetan-1-column:241:2:94:4:1:0:56:0:Tibetan 1 column glyph
+tibetan:252:2:94:4:2:0:55:0:Tibetan characters
+lao:167:1:94:3:1:0:49:0:Lao characters (ISO10646 0E80..0EDF)
+indian-1-column:240:2:94:4:1:0:54:0:Indian charset for 2-column width glypps
+indian-2-column:251:2:94:4:2:0:53:0:Indian charset for 2-column width glyphs
+indian-is13194:225:1:94:3:2:0:53:1:Generic Indian charset for data exchange with IS 13194
+ascii-right-to-left:166:1:94:3:1:1:66:0:ASCII (left half of ISO8859-1) with right-to-left direction
+chinese-cns11643-7:250:2:94:4:2:0:77:0:CNS11643 Plane 7 Chinese Traditional
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+ethiopic:245:2:94:4:2:0:51:0:Ethiopic characters
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+arabic-1-column:165:1:94:3:1:1:51:0:Arabic 1-column
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+vietnamese-viscii-lower:162:1:96:3:1:0:49:1:VISCII1.1 lower-case
+ipa:161:1:96:3:1:0:48:1:IPA (International Phonetic Association)
+chinese-sisheng:160:1:94:3:1:0:48:0:SiSheng characters for PinYin/ZhuYin
+chinese-big5-2:153:2:94:3:2:0:49:0:Big5 Level-2 Chinese traditional
+chinese-big5-1:152:2:94:3:2:0:48:0:Big5 Level-1 Chinese traditional
+chinese-cns11643-2:150:2:94:3:2:0:72:0:CNS11643 Plane 2 Chinese traditional
+chinese-cns11643-1:149:2:94:3:2:0:71:0:CNS11643 Plane 1 Chinese traditional
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+korean-ksc5601:147:2:94:3:2:0:67:0:KSC5601 Korean Hangul and Hanja
+japanese-jisx0208:146:2:94:3:2:0:66:0:JISX0208.1983/1990 Japanese Kanji
+chinese-gb2312:145:2:94:3:2:0:65:0:GB2312 Chinese simplified
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+cyrillic-iso8859-5:140:1:96:2:1:0:76:1:ISO8859-5 (Cyrillic)
+latin-jisx0201:138:1:94:2:1:0:74:0:JISX0201.1976 Japanese Roman
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+hebrew-iso8859-8:136:1:96:2:1:1:72:1:ISO8859-8 (Hebrew)
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+greek-iso8859-7:134:1:96:2:1:0:70:1:ISO8859-7 (Greek)
+thai-tis620:133:1:96:2:1:0:84:1:TIS620.2529 (Thai)
+latin-iso8859-4:132:1:96:2:1:0:68:1:ISO8859-4 (Latin-4)
+latin-iso8859-3:131:1:96:2:1:0:67:1:ISO8859-3 (Latin-3)
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+ascii:000:1:94:1:1:0:66:0:ASCII (ISO646 IRV)

etc/DEBUG

+Debugging GNU Emacs
+Copyright (c) 1985 Richard M. Stallman.
+
+   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
+   of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
+   copyright notice and permission notice are preserved,
+   and that the distributor grants the recipient permission
+   for further redistribution as permitted by this notice.
+
+   Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
+   of this document, or of portions of it,
+   under the above conditions, provided also that they
+   carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
+
+On 4.2 you will probably find that dbx does not work for
+debugging GNU Emacs.  For one thing, dbx does not keep the
+inferior process's terminal modes separate from its own.
+For another, dbx does not put the inferior in a separate
+process group, which makes trouble when an inferior uses
+interrupt input, which GNU Emacs must do on 4.2.
+
+dbx has also been observed to have other problems,
+such as getting incorrect values for register variables
+in stack frames other than the innermost one.
+
+The Emacs distribution now contains GDB, the new source-level
+debugger for the GNU system.  GDB works for debugging Emacs.
+GDB currently runs on vaxes under 4.2 and on Sun 2 and Sun 3
+systems.
+
+
+** Some useful techniques
+
+`Fsignal' is a very useful place to stop in.
+All Lisp errors go through there.
+
+It is useful, when debugging, to have a guaranteed way
+to return to the debugger at any time.  If you are using
+interrupt-driven input, which is the default, then Emacs is using
+RAW mode and the only way you can do it is to store
+the code for some character into the variable stop_character:
+
+    set stop_character = 29
+
+makes Control-] (decimal code 29) the stop character.
+Typing Control-] will cause immediate stop.  You cannot
+use the set command until the inferior process has been started.
+Put a breakpoint early in `main', or suspend the Emacs,
+to get an opportunity to do the set command.
+
+If you are using cbreak input (see the Lisp function set-input-mode),
+then typing Control-g will cause a SIGINT, which will return control
+to the debugger immediately unless you have done
+
+    ignore 3  (in dbx)
+or  handle 3 nostop noprint  (in gdb)
+
+You will note that most of GNU Emacs is written to avoid
+declaring a local variable in an inner block, even in
+cases where using one would be the cleanest thing to do.
+This is because dbx cannot access any of the variables
+in a function which has even one variable defined in an
+inner block.  A few functions in GNU Emacs do have variables
+in inner blocks, only because I wrote them before realizing
+that dbx had this problem and never rewrote them to avoid it.
+
+I believe that GDB does not have such a problem.
+
+
+** Examining Lisp object values.
+
+When you have a live process to debug, and it has not encountered a
+fatal error, you can use the GDB command `pr'.  First print the value
+in the ordinary way, with the `p' command.  Then type `pr' with no
+arguments.  This calls a subroutine which uses the Lisp printer.
+
+If you can't use this command, either because the process can't run
+a subroutine or because the data is invalid, you can fall back on
+lower-level commands.
+
+Use the `xtype' command to print out the data type of the last data
+value.  Once you know the data type, use the command that corresponds
+to that type.  Here are these commands:
+
+    xint xptr xwindow xmarker xoverlay xmiscfree xintfwd xboolfwd xobjfwd
+    xbufobjfwd xkbobjfwd xbuflocal xbuffer xsymbol xstring xvector xframe
+    xwinconfig xcompiled xcons xcar xcdr xsubr xprocess xfloat xscrollbar
+
+Each one of them applies to a certain type or class of types.
+(Some of these types are not visible in Lisp, because they exist only
+internally.)
+
+Each x... command prints some information about the value, and
+produces a GDB value (subsequently available in $) through which you
+can get at the rest of the contents.
+
+In general, most of the rest of the contents will be addition Lisp
+objects which you can examine in turn with the x... commands.
+
+** If GDB does not run and your debuggers can't load Emacs.
+
+On some systems, no debugger can load Emacs with a symbol table,
+perhaps because they all have fixed limits on the number of symbols
+and Emacs exceeds the limits.  Here is a method that can be used
+in such an extremity.  Do
+
+    nm -n temacs > nmout
+    strip temacs
+    adb temacs
+    0xd:i
+    0xe:i
+    14:i
+    17:i
+    :r -l loadup   (or whatever)
+
+It is necessary to refer to the file `nmout' to convert
+numeric addresses into symbols and vice versa.
+
+It is useful to be running under a window system.
+Then, if Emacs becomes hopelessly wedged, you can create
+another window to do kill -9 in.  kill -ILL is often
+useful too, since that may make Emacs dump core or return
+to adb.
+
+
+** Debugging incorrect screen updating.
+
+To debug Emacs problems that update the screen wrong, it is useful
+to have a record of what input you typed and what Emacs sent to the
+screen.  To make these records, do
+
+(open-dribble-file "~/.dribble")
+(open-termscript "~/.termscript")
+
+The dribble file contains all characters read by Emacs from the
+terminal, and the termscript file contains all characters it sent to
+the terminal.  The use of the directory `~/' prevents interference
+with any other user.
+
+If you have irreproducible display problems, put those two expressions
+in your ~/.emacs file.  When the problem happens, exit the Emacs that
+you were running, kill it, and rename the two files.  Then you can start
+another Emacs without clobbering those files, and use it to examine them.

etc/LPF

+	   Protect Your Freedom to Write Programs
+	   Join the League for Programming Freedom
+	       (Version of February 3, 1994)
+
+Ten years ago, programmers were allowed to write programs using all
+the techniques they knew, and providing whatever features they felt
+were useful.  This is no longer the case.  New monopolies, known as
+software patents and interface copyrights, have taken away our freedom
+of expression and our ability to do a good job.
+
+"Look and feel" lawsuits attempt to monopolize well-known command
+languages; some have succeeded.  Copyrights on command languages
+enforce gratuitous incompatibility, close opportunities for
+competition, and stifle incremental improvements.
+
+Software patents are even more dangerous; they make every design
+decision in the development of a program carry a risk of a lawsuit,
+with draconian pretrial seizure.  It is difficult and expensive to
+find out whether the techniques you consider using are patented; it is
+impossible to find out whether they will be patented in the future.
+
+The League for Programming Freedom is a grass-roots organization of
+professors, students, businessmen, programmers and users dedicated to
+bringing back the freedom to write programs.  The League is not
+opposed to the legal system that Congress expressly established for
+software--copyright on individual programs.  Our aim is to reverse the
+recent changes that prevent programmers from doing their work.
+
+The League works to abolish the new monopolies by publishing articles,
+talking with public officials, denouncing egregious offenders, and
+filing amicus curiae briefs, most notably against Lotus in its suit
+against Borland.  We testified twice at the recent Patent Office
+hearings on software patents.  We welcome suggestions for other
+activities, as well as help in carrying them out.
+
+Membership dues in the League are $42 per year for programmers,
+managers and professionals; $10.50 for students; $21 for others.
+Please give more if you can.  The League's funds will be used for
+filing briefs; for printing handouts, buttons and signs; whatever will
+persuade the courts, the legislators, and the people.  You may not get
+anything personally for your dues--except for the freedom to write
+programs.  The League is a non-profit corporation, but not considered
+a tax-exempt charity.  However, for those self-employed in software,
+the dues can be a business expense.
+
+The League needs both activist members and members who only pay their
+dues.  We also greatly need additional corporate members; contact us
+for information.
+
+If you have any questions, please write to the League, phone
++1 617 621 7084, or send Internet mail to lpf@uunet.uu.net.
+
+		       Chris Hofstader, President
+		       Dean Anderson, Secretary
+		       Aubrey Jaffer, Treasurer
+
+Chris Hofstader can be reached at (617) 492-0023; FAX (617) 497-1632.
+To join, please send a check and the following information to:
+
+    League for Programming Freedom
+    1 Kendall Square #143
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etc/MH-E-NEWS

+User-visible changes to mh-e in version 5.0 from 4.1.
+
+   Note: This being a major release, there are many internal changes.
+This document lists only changes to the external interfaces of mh-e.
+
+   When upgrading, you must either explicitly reload the new versions of
+all mh-e files that are already loaded or restart your Emacs.
+
+   mh-e 5.0.1 contains minor changes from mh-e 5.0 to integrate it with
+Emacs 19.29.
+
+   mh-e 5.0.2 contains additional minor changes to integrate it with
+reporter.el (requires reporter.el version 3.1c or later) and Emacs
+19.30.  The mh-goto-msg function is much faster, which also speeds up
+several other operations.
+
+Major Changes and New Features in mh-e
+======================================
+
+   The emphasis for this release has been on consistency and
+documentation.  Many documentation strings were enhanced.
+Documentation strings were changed to comments for internal functions
+and variables.
+
+   There is now proper documentation in the form of a 75-page users
+manual.  The Texinfo source is mh-e.texi; the formatted Info document
+is mh-e.info.
+
+   There is a new command `mh-update-sequences', which updates MH's
+idea of what messages are in the Unseen sequence and what is the current
+folder and message.  `mh-quit' calls it.  While `mh-execute-commands'
+has always done this updating as a side effect, the new function is
+faster.
+
+   The MH profile entry "Inbox:" is supported.
+
+   If the show-buffer is modified, the user is queried before mh-e
+reuses the buffer to show a different message.  This buffer is also
+auto-saved and backed up correctly.
+
+   `mh-store-buffer' is significantly more robust.  It now handles
+messages created by a wide variety of packaging software.  The status
+message for `uudecode' includes the name of the file created.  An error
+is signaled if the subprocess exits with a non-zero status.
+
+   `mh-search-folder' behaves predictably, adding messages found to the
+`search' sequence.  It correctly handles the case of no messages found.
+
+   `mh-burst-digest' (`M-b') now only rescans the part of the folder
+affected by the burst.  It is now much faster in a large folder.
+
+New mh-e Hooks and Customization Variables
+==========================================
+
+   `mh-default-folder-for-message-function': new name for the old
+`mh-msg-folder-hook', which wasn't a hook.  The old name was confusing,
+leading people to think they could use `add-hook' with it, when
+actually `setq' is the correct way.
+
+   `mh-sortm-args': When this variable is used has changed.  Now
+`mh-sortm-args' is passed if there IS a prefix argument to
+`mh-sort-folder'.  The assumption is that for arguments you normally
+want, you would specify them in an MH profile entry.
+
+   `mh-mhn-args': new hook, a list of additional arguments to pass to
+the `mhn' program if `mh-edit-mhn' is given a prefix argument.
+
+   `mh-edit-mhn-hook': new hook called by `mh-edit-mhn', the function
+that formats MIME messages.
+
+   `mh-folder-list-change-hook': new hook, called whenever the cached
+list of folders, `mh-folder-list', is changed.
+
+   `mh-find-path-hook': new hook, called when entering mh-e.
+
+   `mh-repl-formfile': new variable, used to change the format file
+used by `mh-reply' from the default of "replcomps".
+
+   New variables to customize the scan format and notating:
+`mh-note-deleted', `mh-note-refiled', `mh-note-seq', `mh-note-cur',
+`mh-note-copied', `mh-note-printed'.
+