Xref: utzoo comp.emacs:5859 gnu.emacs:725 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!ames!think!rlk From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Babyl Format used in rmail (GNU Emacs) Regexp Message-ID: <39120@think.UUCP> Date: 13 Apr 89 01:50:53 GMT References: <29495@sri-unix.SRI.COM> <1405@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@think.UUCP Reply-To: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Followup-To: comp.emacs Organization: Thinking Machines Corp., Cambridge MA Lines: 25 In-reply-to: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran) I tried to find an "official" document describing babyl format when I was working on rmail (I didn't write it initially, but I extensively modified it over the summer of 1985), but I never had much success. The only two documents I could find were the two that I referenced, the Zmail manual written by RMS, and the (unpublished) info file on Babyl that I grabbed from oz when that machine was still around. The message of mine that Bob Mende reposted to this newsgroup is the standard that I used as a reference when working on rmail. If Fuat used the rmail distributed with Version 18 of emacs, he was correct that it was incorrect -- babyl and zmail put spaces after the commas separating keywords and attributes (labels). Various people have corrected this error. My preferred fix to rmail accepts either syntax, while using a variable to control which compatibility option is used. If there is an official document describing babyl format, it would be useful. I suspect that the chances of finding one are even less than they were in the fall of 1987 (or the summer of 1985), but it's always possible that someone knows something and doesn't know that people are interested. -- ames >>>>>>>>> | Robert Krawitz 245 First St. bloom-beacon > |think!rlk (postmaster) Cambridge, MA 02142 harvard >>>>>> . Thinking Machines Corp. (617)876-1111