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From: burns@cc.gatech.edu (James E. Burns)
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Subject: Re: Reading NeXTMail from an ASCII dump...
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Date: 28 May 91 14:41:42 GMT
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I use the GNU Emacs RMAIL facility to read mail, since it has some
features I like that NeXTMail does not support well.  I wrote/modified
a couple of small utilities to decypher the occasional NeXTMail
messages I receive.

A function for your .emacs file.  (If you don't use GNU Emacs, you can
simulate the first function with your editor of choice --- just put
the desired message in /tmp/nextmsg and trim it from the "begin" line
to the end of the message.)

(defun denext-msg ()
  "Find the NeXT attachment and write it to /tmp/nextmsg
   in preparation for denext."
  (interactive)
    (end-of-buffer)
    (re-search-backward "^begin ")
    (write-region (point) (point-max) "/tmp/nextmsg")
    (message "Now execute denext in the shell.")
    )

A script for your bin (I call it "denext").  Once /tmp/nextmsg is set
up, call denext from a shell.  This will open the directory containing
the various attachments.  Just double click the individual items to
look at them.

#! /bin/csh -f
# denext
#  Extract the NeXT-encoded mail message in /tmp/nextmsg
#  Original version by Mike Dixon (mdixon@parc.xerox.com)
#  Heavily modified 6/27/90, James E. Burns
#
# Before calling, save the "begin 0 .tar ... end" part of the message
# to /tmp/nextmsg  (In Emacs: Special function denext-msg does is
# automtically.)
#
cd /tmp
rm .tar* >& /dev/null
rm -r d.tar* >& /dev/null
if (! -f nextmsg) then
  echo "First store the message to decode in /tmp/nextmsg"
  exit 1
endif
uudecode nextmsg
set tname = .*tar*
mv $tname nextmsg.Z
chmod 644 nextmsg.Z
mkdir d$tname
cd d$tname
zcat ../nextmsg.Z | tar xf -
open .



jim burns
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