Reference List
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I recommend the following RFCs.
The Section RFCs and Internet Drafts
explains how to get them.
You can also click on a link to read from a central Web server, but finding
another site with copies will probably give you faster response.
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RFC 821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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RFC 822, Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages
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RFC 934, Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation
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RFC 1652, SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport
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RFC 1700, Assigned Numbers
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RFC 1869, SMTP Service Extensions
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RFC 1896, The text/enriched MIME Content-type
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RFC 2045, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One:
Format of Internet Message Bodies
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RFC 2046, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two:
Media Types
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RFC 2047, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three:
Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
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RFC 2048, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Four:
Registration Procedures
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RFC 2049, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Five:
Conformance Criteria and Examples
Here are some other useful publications and books:
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Anderson, Robert H., Norman Z. Shapiro, Tora K. Bikson, and Phyllis H. Kantar,
The Design of the MH Mail System,
The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica (CA), December 1989.
(N-3017-IRIS)
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Borden, Bruce S., R. Stockton Gaines, and Norman Z. Shapiro,
The MH Message Handling System: User's Manual,
The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica (CA), November 1979.
(R-2367-AF)
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Garfinkel, Simson,
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy,
ISBN 1-56592-098-8,
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol (CA), 1994.
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Hahn, Harley,
A Student's Guide to Unix,
ISBN 0-07-025511-3,
McGraw-Hill, Inc, New York, 1993.
(Not just for students.
An excellent guide to UNIX.)
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Kernighan, Brian, and Rob Pike,
The UNIX Programming Environment,
ISBN 0-13-937681-X,
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs (NJ), 1984.
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Kochan, Stephen G., and Patrick H. Wood,
UNIX Shell Programming,
Hayden Books, Indianapolis (IN), 1985.
(A revised edition is out, but it unfortunately doesn't cover the C Shell.)
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Ousterhout, John,
Tcl and the Tk Toolkit,
ISBN 0-201-63337-X,
Addison-Wesley.
(By the creator of Tcl and Tk.)
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Peek, Jerry, Mike Loukides, Tim O'Reilly, et al.,
UNIX Power Tools,
ISBN 1-56592-260-3,
O'Reilly & Associates, 2nd Edition, August 1997.
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Quercia, Valerie, and Tim O'Reilly,
Volume 3: X Window System User's Guide,
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol (CA), January 1993.
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Rose, Marshall T.,
The Internet Message: Closing the Book with Electronic Mail,
ISBN 0-13-092941-7,
PTR Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (NJ), 1993.
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Rose, M. T., "The RAND MH Message Handling System:
The UCI BBoards Facility."
(This paper is distributed with MH.)
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Wall, Larry, and Randal L. Schwartz,
Programming perl,
ISBN 1-56592-149-6,
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol (CA), 2nd Edition,
September 1996.
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Welch, Brent B.,
Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk,
ISBN 0-13-182007-9,
Prentice-Hall, 1995.
(By the author of exmh and this book's
chapters about it.)
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Suggestions are welcome:
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