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On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, anthonyw wrote:

>  It is fairly straightforward to write such a utility to go from html back
> to 'mbox'. Remember hyp2mbox.pl
> <http://www.albany.net/~anthony/archivedemo> from sometime ago? That same
> script can be used as a starting point for making a mhonarc2mbox script.

Thanks!  I looked at it and it seems like a reasonable start, if a bit
simplistic.  I'm glad I didn't start my version of mhonarc2mbox yet.

However, it took a little bit of searching to find the script that you are
referring to.  Part of the problem is that the URL is wrong - it should be:

http://www.albany.net/~anthonyw/archivedemo/script.txt

In addition, the name of the script is h2mbx.pl, not hyp2mbox.pl. I tried
looking on Altavista, Google, and Freshmeat, but it wasn't until I tried
the archives of this list that I found what you were referring to at
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/mhonarc/1998-10/msg00056.html

>  While Erik's original question is over two weeks old by now, I too have
> have a project that requires me to morph hyp2mbox.pl into this new
> utility. Which brings me to a feature request.
> 
>  For the msg*.html files that are derived from multipart messages:
> 
> 1) Save the boundary markers of the message part 
> 2) Retain the Mime headers of the message parts - those which are not
>    displayed inline - inside of some X- comment.

That's fine for the future, but what about archives that have been done
with older versions of Mhonarc?  I still think that a general mhonarc2mbox
utility would be useful...

Incidentally, I have tried to follow up on the following lead that was
posted on this list:

> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:10:14 -0400
> From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Does mhonarc2mbox exist? 
> 
> I had to do this. A programmer who works with me on my mailing list has 
> scripts that seemed to have worked okay. His name is Les Schaffer and he 
> can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

...but after two tries of emailing to this Les Schaffer, I didn't get even
a whisper of a response.  Perhaps he has his email filters turned up to
the "no-beggars" setting?

Erik Rossen                         ^
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