Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Messages and MH & Andrew undex X11/NeWS Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 89 14:12:23 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 I've also been talking with Bill Cattey, of MIT, about MH/AMS interoperability. We've concluded that the .amsalien stuff is 90% of the way to a solution, and that a small amount of code should bring it to 100%. In particular, the only places where AMS still acts destructively on the MH naming scheme is in MS_CloneMessage and in the routines that read things out of mailboxes. I think Bill is thinking about trying to make these changes, so you might want to coordinate with him. By the way, after the first time, you shouldn't need to use "reconstruct" -- the new CUI "scavenge" command was designed specifically for this purpose. It basically updates an existing .MS_MsgDir file rather than rewriting it completely. It should be a lot faster than a reconstruction, in general. Bill Cattey seems to be having some problems with it, but it should basically work. You should also note that the .amsalien feature should also allow AMS to read standard netnews databases. Bill and I both have plans to test that out in the not-too-distant future. -- Nathaniel