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From: rock%warp@Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: request for multi-save
Message-ID: <117934@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 89 22:47:53 GMT
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duanev@kauai.ACA.MCC.COM (Duane Voth) writes:


>I tend to collect various source from Usenet and, ala vnews,
>"archive" the source postings in mail folders.  Building the
>source then requires saving off each posting in a separate
>file, stripping some text off the top and unsharing each file.
>I do this manually and was hoping to save some key strokes...

>Can anyone think of a way for mush to save the first n messages
>into "folders" with some unique *sequential* names (ex. the
>first 7 characters of the subject line).  (or maybe someone
>will enlighten me on some other common way to build net source
>or some utility that everybody else uses)

>duane
>-- 
>--- duane voth             duanev@mcc.com
>----           ALL systems are arbitrary!
>--- effectiveness is the measure of Truth
>--

The new news reader "nn" which recently came over the net will allow you
to "unshar" and "patch" directly from the reader.



{decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!warp!rock  Bill Petro