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Re: vm 5.32 lossage with ^A^A^A^A format folders

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From: kyle
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1992 23:06
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Jamie Zawinski writes:
 > I hacked VM 5.18 to read BABYL files at one point, but never got around to
 > porting it when it stopped working.  If you (or anyone else) would like to
 > start from there, I can give it to you.  The file ~emacs/etc/BABYL contains
 > a rough BNF of the format.

I have your original code, and it's likely I'd use it as a guide.

 > (And in my humble (but correct) opinion, BABYL is a much more sane format 
 > than the "From " format...)

From the perspective of trying to use any other mail tools on
your mail folders, I'd say BABYL isn't sane at all.  I think MH
is the sanest of all... one message per file, like Ghod intended.
1/2 :-)  I'm more likely to add MH folder support before BABYL
folder support.
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Subject: Re: vm 5.32 lossage with ^A^A^A^A format folders
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