Xref: utzoo comp.emacs:5857 gnu.emacs:724 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!fuat From: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Babyl Format used in rmail (GNU Emacs) Regexp Message-ID: <1405@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 12 Apr 89 22:28:50 GMT References: <29495@sri-unix.SRI.COM> Reply-To: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran) Organization: Columbia University Center for Computing Activities Lines: 27 In article mende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) writes: >Anyone know if there actually is a "formal" standard? This was done >quickly from memory and a Zmail manual, but there are at least three >programs around that use Babyl files (zmail, babyl, and emacs/rmail) >and someone at SIPB was going to write a command-based mail reader >similar to Unix Mail but operating on babyl files, and someone (of >course not me :-)) should probably write xbabyl :-) Columbia-MM is a another program that operates on babyl format mail files (and also a few others). Unfortunately, we didn't have a document describing the format to work from, so it was based on output from gnuemacs rmail. In fact, it was based on a "buggy" version of rmail, and recently we fixed it (there was a problem with having or not having spaces after the comma separating keywords/labels). I would be very interested in seeing a document that describes what the official babyl format is. If you have such a document could you mail me a copy, (I don't always get to read news before it expires...). Thanks a lot. --Fuat -- INTERNET: fuat@columbia.edu U.S. MAIL: Columbia University BITNET: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu Center for Computing Activities USENET: ...!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!fuat 712 Watson Labs, 612 W115th St. PHONE: (212) 854-5128 New York, NY 10025