Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!mtgzx.att.com!jis From: jis@mtgzx.att.com (J Mukerji) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: eatmail and AMS (messages) gripe Message-ID: Date: 22 Aug 90 19:51:13 GMT References: <8aogxdr0BwwOQRcadk@transarc.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 Excerpts from mail: 22-Aug-90 Re: eatmail and AMS (messag.. Craig_Everhart@transarc. (341) > Do the messages that you are moving have Date: headers that are > parseable? That is, if you feed the contents of the Date: headers to > CUI's ``whenis'' command, do you get meaningful results? > I say this because your symptoms could be explained if all the Date: > header parses failed, and CUI had to use the date on the file itself. > Craig It appears to me that CUI was able to parse the dates since it did set the dates on the files correctly and it sorted the messages in the correct order too. It is only when messages is used to view the folder in which those messages are placed that the other date shows up in the captions. Indeed running the date in those messages through whenis in cui yields the following: CUI> whenis 12 Aug 1988 13:11 EDT 8/12/88 13:11:00 Jishnu.