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From: kaiser@cheese.enet.dec.com
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Subject: Re: VMS MAIL (ISAM FORMAT) ---> ordinary text file
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Date: 15 Jun 90 02:50:47 GMT
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In article <DAVIS.90Jun14025403@pacific.pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
davis@pacific.pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") writes...

>I would like to convert a VMS MAIL file from its ISAM format to ordinary
>text. That is, I want to write my own extraction routine that extracts new
>mail and appends it to an ordinary ascii file. This way I don't have to enter
>mail and type extract at the VMS mail prompt but insted do it from the DCL
>level. Is this possible? Is there an existing routine that will do the
>extraction for me?

Unless you have in mind something complex involving callable mail, how about
doing it the obvious way with a command procedure?  Something like this:

	$ set noverify
	$ mail
	select /new
	extract /all /append SEQUENTIAL-FILE
	delete /all
	exit

Or is that too simple for what you had in mind?

---Pete

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