Yarn's import -r filename command will convert your file of Unix
mail to its own, ``souplike'' format. Then you can read the mail with yarn,
in its mail ``inbox''. Of course you must do this in a DOS box.
However, I dont recommend this, since the Unix mail format is free of
strange non-ascii characters and header lines that are prone to make mail a
problem to read -- if there are any errors, especially disk write errors.
The free or shareware Eudora will read Unix mail just fine, and it is a
windows program.
You simply move your Unix mail file to the Eudora folder, and open it as a
Eudora folder. Eudora automatically creates an index file for it, but does
not alter your original file much: I think it does convert Unix style end
of line characters to dos style. But Eudora adds no strange binary code or
non-ascii markup to the original file.
Another solution is an older Dos program designed just to read mail in any
definable format. It comes with the Unix format already built in. Try
readmail, getting it from:
ftp://ftp.let.ruu.nl/pub/users/jeroen/readmail/rm50b76.zip
In my opinion it is more user friendly than yarn for reading mail: it has a
user adjustable preview window, ability to mark messages, and operate on the
marked message, sorting, goto a message by message number, etc.
This is a dos program, and there are other DOS ports of familiar Unix
programs such as elm or pine. Look in Simtel for such programs, for example