Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!CS!wisdom
From: wisdom@CS.UWindsor.Ca (CSS Newsletter)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Making a newsgroup into a folder
Keywords: folder newsgroup extract elm vnews
Message-ID: <339@schoenfinkel.CS.UWindsor.Ca>
Date: 22 Jan 91 12:59:01 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Univ. of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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A simple query; what am I doing wrong?

All I really want to be able to do (for example) is:
  cd /usr/spool/news/comp/mail/elm
  cat * >~/Mail/cm-elm
  elm -f =cm-elm

And read Usenet groups THAT way! Sort by subject, and **poof**, who NEEDS
 trn!

Unfortunately, when I do this, I get 

  Folder is corrupt!! I can't read it!!

However, if I (using Vnews) extract msgs out, then cat them together, every-
 thing works just fine.

The only difference I can find is that, the msgs that DO work in folders, start
 with a FROM line, with no colon, but with the date appended to the line.
 
So my simple question, to those of you with more awk and related skills out 
 there is HOW? How do I stick this line in to the beginning of each msg? Or is
 there some OTHER way of getting around it? Am I gonna hafta write a C program
 to add one lousy line to every message and build the folder? (That's within
 my abilities; an AWK script/one-liner isn't). No, Perl isn't up and running
 here either.

-- Pete Smith