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From: argv@island.UUCP (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: request for multi-save
Message-ID: <8907270431.AA08232@island.uucp.>
Date: 27 Jul 89 04:31:07 GMT
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> On Jul 26,  8:14pm, Duane Voth wrote:
> 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)

for whatever it's worth, the "next" version of mush can unshar messages
directly.  It can untarmail tarmail files, etc...  You can omit the whole
step of saving messages to a file.  There may be some shortcomings to this,
so once it's available, you'll have to get back to me with comments.

for the time-being, save -s is about the closest thing you've got.  I
typically use "save -s *" and end up with files named:
    archive_name_part_1_of_5
    archive_name_part_2_of_5
    ...
and so on...  long and ugly, but it works...

  --dan