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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: VM tex manual
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Date: 1 Jun 89 18:14:50 GMT
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Jeff Sparkes writes:
 > The following diffs allow the VM manual to be formatted with
 > TeX.

Thanks for the diffs Jeff, and for correcting some typos in the manual.
Dana Chee at Bellcore also did the conversion and sent me diffs, so I'll
be merging the corrections in these and releasing the resulting document
at some point.

 > 	Also, would it be possible to allow automatic determination of
 > MMDF folders?  This would allow me to read packf'ed MH folders.  Of
 > course, it would be better (from my point of view) to understand MH
 > folders as directories, since I archive news in folders, which can get
 > pretty large.

I'm not keen on trying to make VM recongize truly alien folder formats.
MMDF folders were simple; I don't know what a packf'ed MH folder is.

Auto-determination of folder types is fairly simple to implement.  It
only gets complicated when it comes to saving.  This is because the type
of the folder being saved to has to be deterined and the message may
need to be converted.  Ideally this should be done efficiently and
without having to read in the whole folder to decide what to do.
Unfortunately Emacs doesn't have a primitive to read just the first few
bytes of a file.

BTW, there is a mailing list for VM related discussions.  This is
primarily a bug list for people who don't mind testing the incremental
releases that come between the ones that appear here.  Submissions go to
info-vm@cs.odu.edu, requests to join or to be dropped from the list go
to info-vm-request@cs.odu.edu.

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