Re: Yarn (DOS) -> Linux
From: Howard Schwartz (theo@ncal.verio.com)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 19:39:15 -0800 (PST)
>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.
>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!
Why not use the ``unfolder'' program that is part of the yarn utilities?
It converts messages in yarn format to just about any format you want.
I dont know what Unix programs you use, but you ought to be able to
convert to whatever it is, from there.