Mac OS X Port of the Heirloom Project

The project homepage is http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/ where you will find the source archives, documentation and other infos.

This port of the heirloom tools uses the users default encoding, eg en_US.ISO8859-1. You can switch the encoding on the fly by setting the environment variable 'HEIRLOOMENC', this allows to work with different encodings at the same time. Check $HEIRLOOM/5bin/5 and $HEIRLOOM/etc/5.rc for more details.

Heirlooms troff typesetter supports a wide range of UTF-8 glyphs and Truetype/Opentype fonts. There are several tools available to convert the standard Mac fonts into TTF format. After conversion place them into /usr/local/share/fonts/TTF.

For european users troff implements the '.mediasize a4' request to generate DIN A4 pages instead of the default US letter.

Mac OS X Heirloom-1.1 package (3-Sep-2011)

• use with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion only
• included packages (mostly snapshot from 14-Aug-2011)
  • heirloom: the toolchest
  • heirloom-devtools: lex, yacc, m4, SCCS
  • heirloom-doctools: *roff, etc. with UTF-8 support
  • heirloom-sh-050706: Bourne Shell
  • ex-050325: Ex/Vi
  • mailx-12.5: Mailx with POP3, IMAP, SSL (now supports IMAP folders with Spaces in their name)
• download: http://www.tramm.li/download/Heirloom-1.1.dmg
• first time 64bit build, may contain new bugs...
• the software and package was created on a case sensitive HFS+ filesystem, this may cause problems with nroff(1) and some devices (tab.300[sS], tab.4000[aA])

Mac OS X Heirloom-1.0 package (1-Nov-2008)

• use with Mac OS X 10.5/6 (Snow) Leopard only
• included packages
  • heirloom-070715: the toolchest
  • heirloom-devtools-070527: lex, yacc, m4, SCCS
  • heirloom-doctools-080407: *roff, etc. with UTF-8 support
  • heirloom-sh-050706: Bourne Shell
  • ex-050325: Ex/Vi
  • mailx-12.4: Mailx with POP3, IMAP, SSL (now supports IMAP folders with Spaces in their name)
• download: http://www.tramm.li/download/Heirloom-1.0.dmg
• the software and package was created on a case sensitive HFS+ filesystem, this may cause problems with nroff(1) and some devices (tab.300[sS], tab.4000[aA])

Mac OS X Heirloom-0.9 package (6-May-2008)

• use with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard only
• update heirloom-doctools-080407
• download: http://www.tramm.li/download/Heirloom-0.9.dmg
• the software and package was created on a case sensitive HFS+ filesystem, this may cause problems with nroff(1) and some devices (tab.300[sS], tab.4000[aA])

Mac OS X Heirloom-0.8b package (16-Feb-2008)

• use with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard only
• applied necessary patches for Leopard, no further changes
• download no longer available
• the software and package was created on a case sensitive HFS+ filesystem, this may cause problems with nroff(1) and some devices (tab.300[sS], tab.4000[aA])

Mac OS X Heirloom-0.8 package (22-Sep-2007)

• use with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger only
• updates to
  • heirloom-070715
  • heirloom-doctools-070908
  • mailx-12.3
• download: http://www.tramm.li/download/Heirloom-0.8.dmg
• su(1) does not work at all, I forgot to use su_pam :-(

Mac OS X Heirloom-0.7 package (9-Jun-2007)

• updates to
  • heirloom-devtools-070527
  • heirloom-doctools-070524
• download: http://www.tramm.li/download/Heirloom-0.7.dmg
• /opt/heirloom/README is current again
• 'su - USER' still gives bus error; 'su USER' works

Mac OS X Heirloom-0.6 package (9-Apr-2007)

• updates to
  • heirloom-070227
  • heirloom-devtools-070311 (SCCS manpages, yeah)
  • heirloom-doctools-070318
• download: http://www.tramm.li/download/Heirloom-0.6.dmg
• fixed: mailx is now 12.2 and does not state to be 12.3
• /opt/heirloom/README is out of date
• 'su - USER' gives bus error; 'su USER' works

Mac OS X Heirloom-0.5 package (13-Jan-2007)

• now includes SCCS and mailx12.2, but man pages for SCCS are not available (they are not released by Sun)
• update heirloom-doctools-061212, heirloom-devtools-070102
• manually modified files in /opt/heirloom/etc are preserved when upgrading (the packaged files will be installed with extension '.dist' in this case)
• download no longer available

Note:

• mailx claims to be 12.3 but it is 12.2; I did the 'cvs co' on head

Mac OS X Heirloom-0.4 package (10-Sep-2006)

• update heirloom-doctools-060905
• troff PDFs (reference manual, examples, etc.) in /opt/heirloom/doc/doctools
• still todo: keep user edited etc/default files when upgrading
• download no longer available

Mac OS X Heirloom-0.3 package (29-Jun-2006)

• no new packages, see the 0.2 package
• now with universal binaries
• download no longer available

fixed:

• fixed 'lib/magic' file for Mach-O fat files
• fixed postinstall script
  • todo: keep user edited etc/default files when upgrading

Mac OS X Heirloom-0.2 package (25-Jun-2006)

• now includes
  • heirloom-060122 the toolchest
  • heirloom-devtools-051216 lex, yacc, m4, etc.
  • heirloom-doctools-060619 *roff, etc. with UTF-8 support
  • heirloom-sh-050706 Bourne Shell
  • ex-050325 Ex/Vi
  • mailx-12.1 Mailx with POP3, IMAP, SSL
• still no universal binaries
• a postinstall scripts creates /var/preserve, /var/log/sulog, /var/adm/spellhist
  • create directory '/var/adm' manually before installation
• many manpages still refer to the wrong installation path
• a man page for the '5' command is still missing
• download no longer available
• remove the package with: 'sudo rm -rf /opt/heirloom'

fixed:

• now Heirloom nroff and mandoc are used for manpage formatting
• pgrep, su, 5.rc, mailx-manpage are fixed
• mailx now has SSL enabled

Mac OS X Heirloom-0.1 package (29-Jan-2006)

• you must create '/var/preserve/' manually (chmod 0755)
• 'su' does not work
• 'groff' is still used as man page formatting tool, in future heirlooms own *roff will be used
• a man page for the '5' command is missing
• /opt/heirloom/etc/5.rc needs an 'export PS1' at the end
• the doctool man pages refer to '/usr/ucb/' instead of '$HEIRLOOM/ucb' as install path
• 'man mailx' does not work, use 'man nail' instead
• pgrep cannot handle processes in 'H' state
• download no longer available

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