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From: scott@tekcrl.TEK.COM (Scott Huddleston)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Migrating MH folders to elm mailboxes ?
Message-ID: <2198@tekcrl.TEK.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 88 23:38:23 GMT
References: <19836@amdcad.AMD.COM> <1599.568513624@hplpm>
Reply-To: scott@tekcrl.UUCP (Scott Huddleston)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Summary: mhpath helps


mhpath is often better than shell globbing for converting MH message specs 
to unix file names.  Besides being more robust, mhpath orders message names
numerically, whereas globbing orders them alphabetically.  Changing
>	cd ~/Mail/inbox     #or whatever folder
>	foreach msg ( `ls [1-9]*` )
to
	foreach msg ( `mhpath +inbox all` )	#or whatever folder
In article <1599.568513624@hplpm> marvit%hplpm@HPLABS.HP.COM (Peter Marvit) 
gives the following improved script for converting an MH folder to an
Elm-readable file  (spaces in the From line are important):

	foreach msg ( `mhpath +inbox all` )	#or whatever folder
	cat "From null Wed Jan  6 00:00 PST 1988" >> /tmp/elm-msgs
	cat $msg >> /tmp/elm-msgs
	end
	elm -f /tmp/elm-msgs