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From: tr@madeleine.ctt.bellcore.com (tom reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Saving messages
Keywords: Irritation
Message-ID: <18575@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 13 Dec 89 14:21:48 GMT
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Reply-To: tr@madeleine.UUCP (tom reingold)
Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, Noo Joizy
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On the subject of "Saving messages", gfink@iris.ucdavis.edu (George
Fink) writes:

$ This may be apparent in some document or other, but I can't find it,
$ and its really irritating me.
$ 
$ How do you save a mail message off to a file after it has been inc'ed?
$ The only way I can think of is to cd to the folder's directory, then
$ cp it somewhere else.
$ 
$ This is only really necessary if you mail code or something that you
$ need to use in some other context, but it happens enough that there
$ must be an easy way to do this.

You can use

	show > file

which might format it slightly.  If you want no formatting at all, use

	show -noshowproc > file

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