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Re: can't parse folder

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From: John Burke
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:15
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>>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

    Kyle> John Burke <jb@museumca.org> wrote:
    >> >>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
    >> 
    Kyle> John Burke <jb@museumca.org> wrote:
    >> >> Suddenly, my incoming folder opens as a single file with the
    >> >> summary window blank and the message on the mode line >>
    >> "(unrecognized folder type)".  Is this a coding system error,
    >> >> or is the folder somehow corrupted?
    >> 
    Kyle> VM determines the folder type by looking at the top of the
    Kyle> file.  Something must be wrong with the top of the file.  I
    Kyle> don't know what type of folder you normally use so I can't
    Kyle> tell you exactly what to look for.
    >> Ok, here's the first few lines of my incoming folder (somehow,
    >> the folder got corrupted as soon as I saved the below-mentioned
    >> "links.htm" attachment to disk.  Can I blame Bill G?):

    Kyle> Doubtful, if you were running VM.  Did you save the message
    Kyle> with 's', or did you use $ s or $ w to save a MIME object?

Mouse-2, save to file...but, before I save the file, I was trying
unsuccesfully to change the coding system to resolve some strange
character displays (mostly quotes) in the text parts of the html...

    >> X-VM-Summary-Format: "%n %*[%4a] %-26.26UB %-3.3m %2d %H
    >> %4l/%-5c %I\"%s\"\n" X-VM-Labels: ("hot")

    Kyle> This is bad.  Assuming the usual UNIX From-style folders,
    Kyle> the first line of the folder should begin with 'From '.  A
    Kyle> line like this

    Kyle> From bug-vm-request@uunet.uu.net Fri Mar 15 12:29:32 2002

    Kyle> You can put this line at the top of the folder and VM will
    Kyle> probably be able to parse it.

I looked at other folders and figured that out, and yes it worked fine.

Thanks!
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From: John Burke <jb@museumca.org>
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Subject: Re: can't parse folder
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