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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Dumb terminal user mail agent
Message-ID: <130167@gore.com>
Date: 18 Feb 91 15:19:01 GMT
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/ comp.sys.next / declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) / Feb 18'91 /
> And, of course, you could automate this whole thing in a shell script.

I read my mail with NextStep, but not NeXT Mail.  So when mail in NeXT form
arrives, here's the script I use:

~/bin/unNeXTmail:
#!/bin/sh -
gawk -F. '
/^begin/ {
	    filename=$4 ".tar.Z";
	    print $1 filename | "uudecode";
	    next;
	 }
	 {
	    print | "uudecode";
	 }
END	 {
	    close("uudecode");
	    system("chmod u+r " filename ";zcat " filename " | tar xpvf -;rm -f " filename ";open index.rtf");
	 }
'

If you are doing this on a plain ASCII terminal, you may want to replace
"open index.rtf" with "more index.rtf".

Jacob
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