Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!ghoti+ From: ghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Unformatted output from messages Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 19:18:46 GMT References: <1991May22.154424.3236@nlm.nih.gov> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 The way that I do it - involves using a nice generalized proctable function which I have bound to ^X^F (some use ^X^|) in my .atkinit file: ---------------- addkey filter-filter-region ^X^F textview filter ---------------- Then what I do is select the text of the message that I wish to put into a file (sometimes the whole message, headers and all) - invoke the above function, which prompts for a 'Command:' in the message-line of the window and I fill it in with something like: Command: cat > /tmp/foo and hit . It takes a few seconds but then it finally says 'done' - and the file then exists - completely sans ATK formatting. --fish