garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Gary Faulkner) (02/27/90)
Does anyone have a utility which will convert standard mail (saved) files to mh folders (I have a user who just started using mh, and doesn't want to have to inc them into his ~/Mail/inbox and re-file them - there are too many). Anyway, obviously a shell script could be written to do this, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. Thanks in advance! Gary Faulkner National Center for Supercomputing Applications - University of Illinois Internet: garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu Disclaimer: I've only stated my opinion, not anyone elses.
jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine) (02/28/90)
garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu writes: >Does anyone have a utility which will convert standard mail (saved) files >to mh folders Do you have an MH manual? If not, you can get a list of the options available with any MH command by using "-help" (e.g., "inc -help"). Is there some reason not to use "inc +whateverfolder -file mbox"? -- John Romine
khera@juliet.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) (02/28/90)
In article <1990Feb27.151340.19111@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu writes: >Does anyone have a utility which will convert standard mail (saved) files >to mh folders (I have a user who just started using mh, and doesn't want >to have to inc them into his ~/Mail/inbox and re-file them - there are too >many). Anyway, obviously a shell script could be written to do this, but >I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. > >Gary Faulkner according to the second sentence in the man page for inc, if no "+folder" argument to inc is supplied, then it uses +inbox. so if you use the command "inc +bar -file bar.mbox" then the mbox file bar.mbox will be incorporated into the mh folder bar. to do a whole bunch of these files would just require one for loop written in your choice of shell. there is no re-inventing of a wheel going on here, just some reading of the man page. v. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vick Khera Department of Computer Science ARPA: khera@cs.duke.edu Duke University UUCP: ..!{mcnc,decvax}!duke!khera Durham, NC 27706
agj@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Rob Stanfield) (02/28/90)
In article <1990Feb27.151340.19111@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu writes: >Does anyone have a utility which will convert standard mail (saved) files >to mh folders (I have a user who just started using mh, and doesn't want >to have to inc them into his ~/Mail/inbox and re-file them - there are too >many). Anyway, obviously a shell script could be written to do this, but >I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. Try: inc -file save_file +folder where save_file is the user's mail file and folder is the desired mh folder. >Gary Faulkner >National Center for Supercomputing Applications - University of Illinois >Internet: garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu >Disclaimer: I've only stated my opinion, not anyone elses. -- -- Rob Stanfield Internet: agj@mace.cc.purdue.edu BITNET: STANFIEL@PURCCVM UUCP: {pur-ee,purdue}!mace.cc.purdue.edu!agj