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From: grahamd@otc.otca.oz.au (Graham Dumpleton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: elm folder --> mh folder --> elm folder
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Date: 11 Mar 91 02:06:23 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.140403.17710@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU>
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In article <1991Mar8.140403.17710@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU>, ramsey@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) writes:
|> I support the use of elm for our users, but use mh myself, except
|> when testing a new release of elm or a patch.  When I test elm I
|> end up eventually needing to convert an elm folder to mh format
|> for long-term archiving, and I was wondering if
|> anyone has written scripts to convert elm folders into
|> individual files suitable for mh, and for converting mh files into
|> folders suitable for elm?

elm folder --> mh folder can be achieved by using the mh inc program. We have a real mess here in that some people use elm; myself included, some people use MH and some people use the Andrew Toolkit mail programs. The Andrew programs expect to drag mail out of a directory where each mail item is a single file; ie. MH. So if someone sends me some Andrew multi-media mail I stick it in an elm folder called 'messages' I then run

  inc -file $HOME/Mail/messages -truncate

which sticks it in my MH inbox. I can then run the Andrew messages program which sucks the mail out of my inbox. If you leave off the '-truncate' the elm folder will be left as it originally was and will not set it to zero length.

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Graham Dumpleton (grahamd@otc.otca.oz.au)