Subject: Tenex format

From: Dave King <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 13:57:27 +0000 (GMT)

Can anyone help with these questions?:

1. It's easy to get Pine's INBOX into tenex format by touch(ing) mail.TxT,
   but is there an easy way to reverse the process?

2. Is there a technical description of the tenex format so that I can 
   incorporate tenex support in a program I've written (specifically how
   to determine the start and end of a message, and its status: New, Old,
   or Unread). 

I'd like to make use of tenex but am wary about going up a one way street! 

Thanks in advance,

Dave

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 09:02:59 -0800 (PST)

No, there is not currently a painless way to reverse the process.  A
simple copier program would be pretty trivial using c-client, but none of
us have gotten around to writing it.  I did talk to someone a few weeks
ago who was going to write such a beast, but have not heard anything in a
while. 

The Pine Technical Notes include a description of the Tenex format. The
easiest way to add Tenex support to your app would be to call the
appropriate c-client routines.  You might also want to wait for the Unix
MTX driver.  This is almost identical to Tenex format, but is binary
compatible with the MTX format used in PC-Pine. 

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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