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Article #147Re: RMAIL to MUSH conversion
From: Patrick Wolfe
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1989 19:44
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1989 19:44
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> I'm in the process of converting to mush, after years of rmail
> within Gnu emacs. I have many rmail files that I would like
> to convert to mush format. Has anyone done this before?
I had to write the enclosed Perl script to do exactly that when I simply
decided to *try* rmail once. The damn thing went and sucked up my existing
mbox file, converting it to rmail format, but didn't provide a way to put
it back when I decided to stick with mush!
Patrick Wolfe (pat@kai.com, kailand!pat)
System Manager, Kuck & Associates, Inc.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# unrmailit
$TRUE = 1;
$FALSE = 0;
$copy = $FALSE;
$begin_string = "*** EOOH ***";
$end_string = sprintf ("%c%c", 31, 12);
while (<>)
{
if ($copy)
{
print $_;
}
chop;
if ($_ eq $begin_string)
{
if (! $copy)
{
print "From unknown@unknown Sat Dec 31 00:01:00 1988\n";
}
$copy = $TRUE;
}
elsif ($_ eq $end_string)
{
$copy = $FALSE;
}
}
exit (0);
--
Patrick Wolfe (pat@kai.com, kailand!pat)
System Manager, Kuck & Associates, Inc.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!kailand.kai.COM!pwolfe From: pwolfe@kailand.kai.COM (Patrick Wolfe) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: RMAIL to MUSH conversion Message-ID: <8908171944.AA15132@kailand.kai.com> Date: 17 Aug 89 19:44:36 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: Kuck and Associates, Inc., 1906 Fox Drive, Champaign IL 61820, voice 217-356-2288, fax 217-356-5199 Lines: 49