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From: frechett@boulder.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-)
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Subject: Re: Elm <-> MH utility?
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Date: 18 Sep 90 02:11:54 GMT
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In article <15473@reed.UUCP> chaffee@reed.UUCP (Alex Chaffee) writes:
>I'm getting ready to write a sed or awk script which converts MH folders
>into standard /usr/spool/mail-style folders, so that elm can read them.  But
>before I do, I thought I should ask if anyone else has such a beast.
>
>Much obliged,
>
> - Alex
>-- 
>Alex Chaffee
>chaffee@reed.{UUCP,BITNET}
>Reed College, Portland OR 97202
>____________________


Well, originally I would have said to use packf, but after playing with it I
see that it doesn't make mail readable files.  But it does set up all the
messages in one file.  I think that it is still useful, so here is how I 
might go about doing what you need.  I tryed this and it works fine.  Just make
an alias and substitute in control-A for ^A.
alias packit 'packf +\!^ -file \!$ ; cat \!$ | sed "/^A^A^A^A/g" | tee > \!$'

Given that you have a folder called +ziltch you can go to Mail directory
and type 
packit ziltch Ziltch    and it will pack all the messages into Ziltch and 
then it runs it through sed and replaces all the ^A^A^A^A with spaces and then
copies the edited version back to the original.  
This little alias will create a file that you can read with mail.  


Hope you can use it.  BTW I just thought this one up, so if you find that I 
have not tested it extensively enough then sue me.  ;)  I do know that 
it worked for me quite well.

	ian
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