On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Erik Rossen wrote:
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> On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, anthonyw wrote:
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> > 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
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> 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
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My bad about the URL, I should have checked it before I hit send. I keep
forgot the W at the end of my login id when I made up the URL. My bad
about the script name. I did not give it an official name and forgot to be
consistent. Sorry about that.
> > 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...
>
The feature request do not hold me back at all. I was lazy about parsing
and was over complicating the problem of determining when a url in the
msg.html file was from a derived file. More on that in my followup to
Earl.
> Incidentally, I have tried to follow up on the following lead that was
> posted on this list:
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> > 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?
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> Erik Rossen ^
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Regards,
AnthonyW
