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From: bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Converting mailbox format to mh message format
Message-ID: <960002@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 88 22:30:30 GMT
References: <5869@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: HP SEMC, Cupertino, CA
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tom reingold (tr@wind.bellcore.com) writes:
> Someone posted a very simple and elegant to take a mailbox file
> with many messages in it and convert it to many mh message files.
> I lost it and would like a copy.

Would this do the trick?  Supposing the file you want to parse is "mbox":

	% inc -file mbox -truncate

This breaks mbox up into +inbox/*.  You can also type:

	% inc -file mbox -truncate +oldmail

to refile everything into +oldmail.

-- bd