> >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.
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> >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.
I'm looking for a tool that will have approximately the same level of
functionality as YARN. Someone else on the list pointed to Multimail on
clark.net that looks to have the potential.
Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't
Wayne D. | pay for this, etc. (directly anyway)