Re: Nettamer --> Yarn

From: Thomas Heye (heye@netcologne.de)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:33:54 -0500

In article <B/lU2YuHdlGN092yn@t-online.de>,
Tibor_Mocsar@t-online.de (Tibor Mocsar) wrote:
>
>What do I see?! Did you really manage converting Nettamer's
>messagebases (.pru) with the yarnutils? I've been suffering for weeks
>without any usable result.... :-(
>Can you describe it detailed how you solved this problem?
>
>BTW, you can find YES at ftp://login.dknet.dk/pub/pg/YES/yes-22.zip
>
>Tibor
>

Hallo, tibor!

Thankyou very much for the YES URL!

Well, I don't know the .pru file format of Nettamer, but in case you
have your .dlu files, it's quite simple: You can read them with a normal
text editor (surprising, isn't it?)! Messages are just separated by a
dot at the beginning of a line (nothing else in that line). Just replace
it with ASCII 19 and remove everything including a line which reads as
"+OK nnnn octets". Then your message follows. Also note that if you have
blank lines between this ASCII 19 line and the beginning of your
message, you won't see its subject or whatever when you read it in the
folder (i.e. when you are on the article selection level). Also remove
the last dot line (after the last message), otherwise you'll get an
empty message (with "From: (unknown)" and "Subject: unknown").

So, that's it! Now you just have to convert your text file to a folder.
I hope the .dlu file format hasn't changed that much since my version
(was somelthing like .05).

I did it with QEdit and had no problems.

Regards,

Thomas