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> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:16:36PM -0500, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
> >
> > I still use DOS on a regular basis, but I would like to move to
> > Linux full-time, but I got lots of stuff (clippings that I've
> > saved) - just checking it's >100mb dating back 6 or 7 years. I'm
> > sure some of the older stuff can be deleted without much loss
> > (my first linux clipping file is from Dec 94 and talks about the
> > Linux Bible)! It would also be handy to have Yarn deal with
> > directories for clippings (yeah sure).
>
> I moved to Mutt (www.mutt.org) for mail. Very powerful program with open
> source, active development, and active support lists. I wouldn't
> go back to Yarn now even if it were open source and ported to Linux.
>
> I'm not sure what you want to do with the old clippings, but you can
> read DOS partitions from Linux even without using DOSEMU (which Yarn
> will run under).
I'm not worried that much about mail, I'm more worried about the
newsgroups. I'm sure I have many megabytes worth of cartoons from
email stored away in the humor clippings, but I have lots of files of
newsgroup and listserv postings (~1,000 files). These yarn clippings
were done with the "o" function to store the entire article in a "YARN"
file, not an ASCII file. I would copy all of these clipping files
to a zip file and take them to work - when there got to be to many to
fit on a floppy, I would move the largest ones to a subdirectory under
\INET\yymm (ie \INET\9804 would contain 4 files totaling 870k).
When I need to find something, I use grep and list to find stuff,
once it's located, I copy the file back to the YARN\MAIL directory
(with a differet title in case the name is already being used, the
Unix shell newsgroup will be called shell.unx no matter which
month/year it is), fire up yarn and actually get the article. As
you can tell, this is a royal pain in the backside. Luckily I
don't need it on a regular basis!
But this still needs DOS to run & I want to switch to Linux!
Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't
Wayne D. | pay for this, etc. (directly anyway)