benson@ksr.UUCP (Benson Margulies) (12/29/87)
has anyone got a quick way to turn a news posting read in rn into a mail message in MH? -- Benson I. Margulies Kendall Square Research Corp. harvard!ksr!benson ksr!benson@harvard.harvard.edu
spock@falcon.mtl.u-tokyo.JUNET (Scientific Officer Vulcan,380E,6763,9574302) (12/29/87)
In article <207@ksr.UUCP> benson@ksr.UUCP () writes: >has anyone got a quick way to turn a news posting read in rn into a >mail message in MH? I use simple rn macro. In ~/.rnmac file, sm |mhmail -subject "%s" -from "%t" kono@mtl.u-tokyo.junet ------------------------ $@2OLn??<#(J $@ElBgBg3X1!>pJs9)3X@lLg2]Dx(J $@EDCf1QI'8&5f<<(J ($@EE5$9)3X2J(J) Shinji Kono @ Tanaka Lab. Electorical Engineering, University of Tokyo kono%mtl.u-tokyo.junet.CSNET@RELAY.CS.NET
smarks%trantor@Sun.COM (Stuart Marks) (12/30/87)
In article <207@ksr.UUCP> benson@ksr.UUCP (Benson I. Margulies) writes: >has anyone got a quick way to turn a news posting read in rn into a >mail message in MH? Yes! I have a very simple shell script "mhcp" that copies stdin to a new message at the end of the specified folder. It requires that you have the "mhpath" command, which is present in MH 6.5. (I don't know if it's present in earlier versions.) I also have a couple of rn macros that invoke mhcp from within rn. The '!' macro causes the current article to be appended to the folder "+news", while the '@' macro lets you specify the folder to which the article will be appended. (Note that these macros don't check to see whether you're in the proper one of rn's zillion modes. I didn't feel like adding all the conditional garbage.) So, if I'm running rn and I run across an article I want to save, I merely hit ! and it's saved in a jiffy! Here's a shell archive with the mhcp script and the rn macros. Stuart ================================ cut here ================================== #! /bin/sh # This is a shell archive. To extract, cut everything above # the "#! /bin/sh" line and run the rest through sh. ## mhcp echo '=>' mhcp cat > mhcp << '1930!Funky!Stuff!' #! /bin/sh # mhcp - copy stdin to a new mh article # Usage: mhcp [+folder] if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then set +news fi outfile=`mhpath $* new` echo "==> $outfile" cat - > $outfile 1930!Funky!Stuff! chmod +x mhcp ## rnmac echo '=>' rnmac cat > rnmac << '1930!Funky!Stuff!' ! | mhcp +news\nn @ | mhcp + 1930!Funky!Stuff! exit # End of shell archive. ================================ cut here ================================== Stuart Marks ARPA: smarks@sun.com Window Systems Group UUCP: {decwrl,ucbvax}!sun!smarks Sun Microsystems, Inc.
mujica@CS.UCLA.EDU (12/30/87)
In article <279@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: > > >has anyone got a quick way to turn a news posting read in rn into a > >mail message in MH? > > !inc -file %A >-- >For comp.sources.unix stuff, mail to sources@uunet.uu.net. the simplest way may be to pipe the message through rcvstore (look into the man page for rcvstore) or slocal, that in addition will consult your ~/.maildelivery file (look at the man page for mhook) this will also work if the public news spool directory is not in the local machine. -------------- Sergio Mujica, mujica@cs.ucla.edu (213) 825-7276 3804 Boelter Hall, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles CA 90024
indra@amdcad.AMD.COM (Indra Singhal) (12/30/87)
In article <207@ksr.UUCP> benson@ksr.UUCP () writes: > >has anyone got a quick way to turn a news posting read in rn into a >mail message in MH? >-- I recall seeing some code that did that in the /miscellany directory that came with the MH distribution. -- (-:-) (-:-) -I said so... & said it for myself. Indra K. Singhal {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!indra or amdcad!indra@decwrl.dec.com
cosell@cosell.bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) (12/30/87)
What I use is the following little shell script. What I do is
tell rn to "|savemsg".
#!/bin/sh
case $# in
0) sed -e '1d' >$H/1
;;
1) cat $1 >$H/1
;;
*) for file
do savemsg $file ; done
exit
;;
esac
refile 1 -src $H +saved </dev/null
__
/ ) Bernie Cosell
/--< _ __ __ o _ BBN Labs, Cambridge, MA 02238
/___/_(<_/ (_/) )_(_(<_ cosell@bbn.comrsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (12/30/87)
>has anyone got a quick way to turn a news posting read in rn into a >mail message in MH? !inc -file %A -- For comp.sources.unix stuff, mail to sources@uunet.uu.net.
ken@cwi.nl (Ken Yap) (12/30/87)
Sorry guys, you missed the obvious:
| rcvstore +junk
Rcvstore is in /usr/new/lib/mh or something like that so most people
don't know about it.
Kenleres@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Leres) (12/30/87)
I use the appended script in conjunction with this .rnmac entry: s s|rntomh %C %a^J I used to use inc but this is much faster. Craig ------ #! /bin/sh # This is a shell archive, meaning: # 1. Remove everything above the #! /bin/sh line. # 2. Save the resulting text in a file. # 3. Execute the file with /bin/sh (not csh) to create the files: # rntomh # This archive created: Tue Dec 29 21:09:38 1987 export PATH; PATH=/bin:$PATH echo shar: extracting "'rntomh'" '(260 characters)' if test -f 'rntomh' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'rntomh'" else sed 's/^X//' << \SHAR_EOF > 'rntomh' X#!/bin/csh -f X# X# rntomh X# X# Arguments: X# %C newsgroup name, dot form X# %a article number X# X# Stdin: X# the article to save X Xset folder=+news X( echo "Article: $2 of $1" ; cat ) | /usr/new/lib/mh/rcvstore $folder X Xecho Saved article $2 of $1 to $folder. SHAR_EOF if test 260 -ne "`wc -c < 'rntomh'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'rntomh'" '(should have been 260 characters)' fi chmod +x 'rntomh' fi # end of overwriting check # End of shell archive exit 0
mob@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Mario O Bourgoin) (12/30/87)
I think I take the cake for the most complex solution. I use rn's
facilities for saving messages and give a shell script as my saver.
ENVIRONMENT:
setenv RNINIT ~/.rnrc
FILE .rnrc:
-EMAILHEADER="To: %T
Subject: %(%i=^$?:Re: %S
Newsgroups: %n
In-Reply-To: %i)
Fcc: outbox
--------
"
-EMAILPOSTER="~/.rn_mailer %h"
-EMBOXSAVER="~/.rn_saver %b %A"
-ESAVEDIR="~/Mail"
-ESAVENAME="article"
FILE .rn_saver
#! /bin/csh -f
# Rn-Mh Mailmode article saver.
#
# Arguments:
# If the folder exists
# $1 <Mail Directory>/<folder>/article
# Else
# $1 <Mail Directory>/<folder>
# Then
# $2 Source article.
set folder=$1
if ("$1:t" == "article") set folder=$folder:h
inc -silent +$folder:t -file $2
FILE .rn_mailer
#! /bin/csh -f
# Rn-Mh Mailer.
#
# Arguments:
# $1 The mail header file.
# Include a copy of the message in the drafts folder.
inc -silent +drafts -file $1
# Edit the message.
comp -usewohler@spam.istc.sri.com (Bill Wohler) (01/05/88)
In article <207@ksr.UUCP> benson@ksr.UUCP () writes: > >has anyone got a quick way to turn a news posting read in rn into a >mail message in MH? i've got the quickest: just type 's' to save an article. you have to invoke rn with "-d~/usr/spool/mail/news -/" in order for the article to be deposited as a mh file in a mh folder (in this case "news"). also note that my mh directory is usr/spool/mail. the above two arguments can placed in an RNINIT environment variable or file in order to avoid typing them every time. --bw
mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer) (01/05/88)
Stuart Marks (hi Stuart!) mentioned one way that he moves messages between rn and mh.... I've found that our version of mh 6.5 running under HPUX on the HP9000s3xx and HP9000s8xx will allow the use of the following rn macro in ~/.rnmac: mv !refile -src +"%d" "%a" +inbox mh's refile now treats an rn spool directory (%d) as an mh mail folder and treats the mh article number (%a) as the mh article number. I can then just type "mv<cr>" to get mh to copy an article to inbox, or I can use backspace to edit over the "+inbox" to specify any destination folder I want. Infact, I often use mh's scan/show/repl/forw (in conjunction with my own mh-based mail browser) to process news articles. It seems that if you specify a full path to a "folder", that folder doesn't have to be in your mh mail directory. For example "scan +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh" will give me a scan listing of all the postings in this group. Is this feature only available on our version of mh 6.5, or does it work on yours as well?? -- Niels Mayer HP Laboratories.
mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer) (01/05/88)
Ooops. Upon reading on, I noticed that you can get an even cleaner solution with rcvstore. That also eliminates that pesky message from "refile" saying that it cannot move the message and is therefore linking instead. However the point still remains that you can access folders outside of your mail directory by specyfying a full path after the "+". I still find that feature useful. But here's a problem: I've also noticed that after I do something like "scan +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh" I will also get an entry in my ~/Mail/context that looks like this: atr-pseq-/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh: 33-63 This would normally not be a problem, except that when I issue the "folders" command, it goes ahead and lists all the "external" folders that I have referenced: Folder # of messages ( range ); cur msg (other files) /usr/spool/news/news/announce/conferences has 44 messages ( 65- 138); cur= 125. /usr/spool/news/comp/emacs has 367 messages (1219-1587); cur=1531. /usr/spool/news/comp/windows/x has 370 messages (1094-1465); cur=1392. /usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh has 31 messages ( 33- 63); cur= 55. . . . This makes the "folders" command take much longer than if it only scanned the local folders. Is there a way of disabling the generation of atr-pseq-<non-local-folder> in ~/Mail/context, preferably, something other than prefacing all accesses to nonlocal folders with "env MHCONTEXT=~/Mail/rncontext <mhcommand>"?? -- Niels.
lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy) (01/11/88)
In your .rnrc, add -ESAVEDIR='%~/Mail/%C' -ESAVENAME='%a' Hitting 's' will save (e.g.) article 779 of comp.ai.digest in ~/Mail/comp.ai.digest/779 I sometimes prefer saving articles in my inbox (especially digests that I want to burst - nice when MH is running under GNU Emacs in another window). The simplest way I've found to do this is to use 'S' after adding S s /`mhpath +inbox new` to my .rnmac file. Omitting the / does not get you what you want. Leaving it in generates //u0/lamy/Mail/inbox/... which works on BSD and friends. (Apollo users should use something like ~/../../`mhpath `. rn does not care. Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.toronto.edu AI Group, Department of Computer Science (416) 978-8700 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4