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From: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul)
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Subject: Re: vm
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Date: 27 Aug 90 19:27:50 GMT
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In article <KPC00.90Aug27042532@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> kpc00@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (kpc) writes:
   I have a copy of vm and have tried it. [...]
   It does not convert rmail files.

You can easily convert those files yourself.  Here is a little shell
script that someone posted a while ago to do this:

#!/bin/sh
#
# usage:	rmail-to-mail file1 file2 ...
#
# result:	file1~     is the original Babyl file
#		file1      is an empty Babyl file
#		file1.mail is a UNIX mail file with the messages from file1

cat > /tmp/$$.el << EOF
;;;
;;; Author:  Nathan Hess  (woodstock@hobbes.intel.com)
;;;
;;

(let ((file-to-be-converted (buffer-file-name))
      (message-count 0)
      (rmail-delete-after-output t)
      (unix-style-file-name (concat (buffer-file-name) ".mail")))
  (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
  (rmail file-to-be-converted)
  (rmail-show-message 1)
  (while (not (rmail-output unix-style-file-name))
    (setq message-count (1+ message-count)))
  (rmail-quit))
EOF

for f in "$@" ; do
    echo ">>> Doing $f"
    emacs -batch $f -l /tmp/$$.el -kill
    echo ">>> Done"
done

rm -f /tmp/$$.el

exit 0
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