shivers@centro.soar.cs.cmu.edu (Olin Shivers) (02/18/89)
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Amazing. I was going through my src directory looking for an old parser
generator when I stumbled across the following. Given all the interest
recently in undoing babyl format conversion, I thought I'd (re-)post it to the
net. I don't know a thing about this program; I've never actually used it. But
you might find it useful.
-Olin
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From: edward@csvaxa.UUCP (Edward Wilkinson)
Subject: C code to convert Babyl mailfiles to Unix mailfiles
Date: 10 Nov 88 18:38:23 GMT
Reply-To: E.Wilkinson@massey.ac.nz
Organization: Computer Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ.
Sometimes I need to have old mailboxes in Unix mail format to fiddle
with. Unfortunately, Gnumacs converts them all to Babyl format. So I
wrote a small program, b2m, to go the other way. It even saves
labels! I don't know if it's any use to anyone else - here is is,
anyway. No man page or Makefile, as it's only small. As I don't know
the exact format of Babyl files, I'm sure the program can be improved.
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/*
* b2m - a filter for Babyl -> Unix mail files
*
* usage: b2m < babyl > mailbox
*
* I find this useful whenever I have to use a
* system which - shock horror! - doesn't run
* Gnu emacs. At least now I can read all my
* Gnumacs Babyl format mail files!
*
* it's not much but it's free!
*
* Ed Wilkinson
* E.Wilkinson@massey.ac.nz
* Mon Nov 7 15:54:06 PDT 1988
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <strings.h>
#define TRUE (1)
#define FALSE (0)
int header = FALSE, printing;
long ltoday;
char from[256], labels[256], data[256], *p, *today;
main(argc, argv)
char **argv;
{
ltoday = time(0);
today = ctime(<oday);
if (gets(data))
if (strcmp(data, "BABYL OPTIONS:")) {
fprintf(stderr, "b2m: not a Babyl mailfile!\n");
exit(-1);
} else
printing = FALSE;
else
exit(-1);
if (printing)
puts(data);
while (gets(data)) {
if (!strcmp(data, ""))
exit(0);
if (!strcmp(data, "*** EOOH ***") && !printing) {
printing = header = TRUE;
printf("From b2m %s", today);
continue;
}
if (!strcmp(data, " ")) {
/* save labels */
gets(data);
p = strtok(data, " ,\r\n\t");
strcpy(labels, "X-Babyl-Labels: ");
while (p = strtok(NULL, " ,\r\n\t")) {
strcat(labels, p);
strcat(labels, ", ");
}
labels[strlen(labels) - 2] = '\0';
printing = header = FALSE;
continue;
}
if (!strlen(data) && header) {
header = FALSE;
if (strcmp(labels, "X-Babyl-Labels"))
puts(labels);
}
if (printing)
puts(data);
}
}
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Any suggestions and/or bugfixes gratefully received at the address
below.
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Ed Wilkinson @ Computer Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
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