On 22 Mar 00 at 0:02, Howard Schwartz wrote: >>There are several programs around that do this kind of thing. There >>is a freeware C program intended for Unix, but it comes with a makefile and >>source. It splits digests in standard RFC 1153 format into separate >>messages. Get it at: >> >> ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/gui/AUIS/auis-6.3/ams/utils/undigest/ Would I need to know any programming to use this? >>There is a program actively maintained called ReRead that lets you define >>any header format for a message and will split a file into messages >>accordingly. Find it at: >> >> http://www.inti.be/hammer/reread40.zip I have used Heimo's ReRead program. >>There is also a (now) freeware program that is pretty much a whole >>mail and news client called ReadMail. It will read, and also send >>e-mail and news in pretty much any format whatsoever, as long as >>you can define what the format is (i.e., the header). >> >>Readmail has a 2 step reading procedure explicitly designed to >>read the individual messages in digests: Say you have a file containing a >>number of messages in standard Unix mailbox format. Readmail will split the >>file into Unix messages, so you can read each message in the file. However, >>say one of those Unix messages is also a digest. You move Readmail's >>highlight to this message and press, ``O''. Readmail then does a second >>split: It splits this message into its individual digest messages, and lets >>you see and read each digest message as a separate message. >> >>ReadMail is a bit buggy but I use it quite successfully to read digests. I >>have some tips for those who need to fiddle with it to overcome its bugs. >>Find it at: >> >> ftp://ftp.let.ruu.nl/pub/users/jeroen/readmail/rm50b76.zip I have tried this program and liked it, but it was too complicated for me to get it setup for email, as I did not know how to set it up for Arachne/Pegasus .cnm file format as well as setting it up to create a reply in the Arachne .tbs format. Could you contact me offlist and help me set it up? I will need to reinstall it as I deleted it recently. Thanks. Regards, Dale Mentzer It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser. This mail written by a user of Arachne, the DOS Internet Client WWWWW World Wide Web Without Windows http://home.arachne.cz Arachne DOS Browser Home Page
