On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:42:55PM -0600, Wayne Fugitt wrote: > Evening Indi, > > At 12:06 PM 11/9/2008, you wrote: >> Well I'm a big fan af keeping all email always, so I grabbed the .mbx >> versions (see headers for my user agent :). > > Of course I do also. I have them on my computer and 3 or 4 other drives. > > >> What email client uses .toc for mail, usually .toc files are for CDs, aren't >> they? > > In this case. the TOC files are the Index Files. Not the data files or > the mail files. > This is Eudora's way of doing it. Notice they are much smaller in size. > > Not sure what they are on CD's . I would guess ......... Index files. >
They are, but the toc stands for "table of contents". You must be sleepy today; I expect you knew that. Just used to store message status in Eudora -- I knew that once, back in the old MacOS days. Eudora was the best we had back then. > >> Is that a windows, sun, vax, or dec thing? And are those the same info >> as the .mbx but in a different format? I'm familiar with Linux, BSD, >> Mac OS X, >> the old Mac OS, and a wee bit of Solaris, but not much else... > > The Eudora I use is a WinDoZZe program. > Yes, my answer was right there in your headers, starng me in the face. If it was a snake, I'd have been bit, wouldn't I? :D > Many programs will import, convert, or otherwise DIGEST......... MBX files. > or ........ so I think. > I imported them easily. Change the .mbx to .mbox and they work for me. Copied now into MH format. > You wrote one long message I intended to reply to, but don't think I did. > > We are much alike and have done many of the same things. > > We don't disagree as much as we thought we did. <grin> > > just a tad, now and then, ....... but not much. > > That is OK too, as that is how we learn new things. > Disagreement is more necessary than a lot of people realize, I think. If we all agreed all the time we would only advance very slowly. It would be really boring, too... But I never find you at all boring, Wayne. Even when we agree. :) Cheers, indi -- WARNING: This message may contain sarcasm, dark humor, disagreement, and honesty. In case of headache, elevated blood pressure, violent thoughts and/or rage, please discontinue use. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
