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Concerning "import mail not soup to yarn"; Of Mon, 03 Mar 1997 12:50:00 -0100
~ >
~ > Hi,
~ >
~ > In the last few weeks I have not collected mail from my UNIX account
~ > very often. This has resulted in a huge 5 megabyte mail file. This is
~ > over the disk quota allowed, and this resulted in no mail beeing
~ > packed in my soup file. Because of other problems in the past, my
~ > script file that creates the soup package places a backup copy of my
~ > mailbox file in another directory. I have downloaded the file but now
~ > I need to know how I can import the file into Yarn the 088 dos
~ > version. The import program has a -r swich that can import UNIX
~ > batch or mailbox files. Can this swich be used in any way? I have
~ > tried to zip the file and then use the -r swich but this results in
~ > an error message saying that the yarn\temp\areas file or directory
~ > does not exist? Now that I have this big mail file, it would be nice
~ > to be able to read the mail.
I cannot give you the details of the solution but I can give
you an outline (Assuming I understand your problem - never a
sure thing). (I lost my copies of the key files about six
months ago when I lost my hard disk)
At Chin's web site there are a bunch of Utilities. One of
them has a name something like YUTIL04 (or maybe 03). They
were written by a German fellow about a year ago, who is sadly
no longer in our elect group.
One of the programs in that package will take a preSOUP package
as downloaded from your UNIX site and convert it into a soup
package of a form that can be digested by chin's import
program.
Note that there are about ten utilities in the package and it
will take you awhile to figure out which one is the one that
does the job. Great programs, lossy docs.
PS. I think addlines.exe is in the package. Try it, I think
you'll like it.
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