billd@fps.com (Bill Davids_on) (12/22/89)
I like to save news in mbox format. The thing that has always annoyed me was that mbox.saver saved things in this form: From celit!ucsdhub!foo!bar!yoyo Article 8192 of news.software.b Path: celit!ucsdhub!foo!bar!yoyo >From: yoyo@bar.edu (YoYo) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: news <etc> The first time I tried to read the file with BSD Mail, I would get the subjects (good). After I read the mail, the file would look like this (bad): From celit!ucsdhub!foo!bar!yoyo Status: RO Article 8192 of news.software.b Path: celit!ucsdhub!foo!bar!yoyo >From: yoyo@bar.edu (YoYo) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: news <etc> From now on, I would not see subjects from the Mail program. The fix to mbox.saver was simple. 0) echo "Article $4 of $6:" ;; became 0) echo "Article: $4 of $6:" ;; Now Mail treats it as a header line and I always get my subjects for stuff I save from rn. It looks like this From celit!ucsdhub!foo!bar!yoyo Article: 8192 of news.software.b Path: celit!ucsdhub!foo!bar!yoyo >From: yoyo@bar.edu (YoYo) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: news <etc> Status: RO <etc> Can anyone see a down side to adding this ":" to the file? If not, should Stan Barber add it to his set of fixes for the next patch? Bill Davidson billd@fps.com System Administrator celerity!billd@ucsd.edu FPS Computing Inc., San Diego ...!ucsd!celerity!billd 9692 Via Excelencia San Diego CA 92126 (619) 271-9940 Ext. 242