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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: turning news articles into MH messages
Message-ID: <1293@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 88 01:57:31 GMT
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Reply-To: mayer@hplabsz.UUCP (Niels Mayer)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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Stuart Marks (hi Stuart!) mentioned one way that he moves messages between
rn and mh.... I've found that our version of mh 6.5 running under HPUX on
the HP9000s3xx and HP9000s8xx will allow the use of the following rn
macro in ~/.rnmac:

mv	!refile -src +"%d" "%a" +inbox

mh's refile now treats an rn spool directory (%d) as an mh mail folder and
treats the mh article number (%a) as the mh article number. I can then just
type "mv<cr>" to get mh to copy an article to inbox, or I can use backspace
to edit over the "+inbox" to specify any destination folder I want. 

Infact, I often use mh's scan/show/repl/forw (in conjunction with my own
mh-based mail browser) to process news articles. It seems that if you
specify a full path to a "folder", that folder doesn't have to
be in your mh mail directory. For example "scan +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh"
will give me a scan listing of all the postings in this group.

Is this feature only available on our version of mh 6.5, or does it work on
yours as well??

-- Niels Mayer
   HP Laboratories.