Re: Archives & Folders

From: Rick Curry (trindflo@fishnet.net)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:39:41 -0800

In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.980311234927.13493A-100000@flemming>,
"Dr I. D. Goodyer" <goodyer@well.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Karl R. Dalley wrote:
>
>> Two questions -
>>
>> 1) I've got a bunch of messages in folders. Recently I've been
>> thinking that they would be better managed in a newsgroup or a
>> pseudo-newsgroup like the mail filters. Is there any way to
>> convert them?
>>
>> 2) I recently received the archives for one of the mailing lists
>> to which I subscribe. It contains about 100 emails, but they are
>> all concatenated into one mail. Is there any way to break up this
>> email into its component parts?
>
>Rick Curry has written a program that will do the first I think for you.
>It is called Yarn2Soup and converts yarn folders to souper format. Once
>in soup format of course you can reimport and filter into a pseudo
>newsgroup. He also wrote an adaptation of that program for me that does
>no. 2. Basically it will create a soup file from your 100 emails.
>Rick subscribes to this list and I don't have his email address with me
>at the moment but I am sure that he would love to give you his programs.
>I can't recommend them highly enough. Rick .... ;)

Thanks Ian,

Yes, that is the primary use for ytsg (Yarn To Soup with Grep). The
most recent version is for OS/2 only and allows the user to search the
Body, From, Header, Newsgroups, Path, Subject and/or Whole message for
strings to control which articles are selected. Once the articles are
converted to Soup, they can be imported back into Yarn. Whatever Yarn
filters are in effect at the time of import will be applied.

There are older versions of the program which are available which also
run under Dos. The older versions only work with Yarn folders (which
sounds like the circumstance in question) or Yarn newsbase versions
prior to version .90 (when the newsbase format changed). The older
versions also have much less in the way of search capability.

The latest (and older) versions of ytsg are available at hobbes. The
latest is ytsg4.zip.

I will eventually release the other program for splitting MajorDomo
lists into separate emails as mdsplit. I have only built this for OS/2,
but the source is simple enough to build it for any OS without any great
trouble. If anybody is interested in Beta testing this software (Ian
took care of Alpha testing!) please let me know.

-Rick Curry (Team OS/2)
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