Subject: pine and xmh folders

From: [email-masked] (Volker Kurz)
Date: 28 Nov 1994 14:51:25 GMT

In page 35 of my "Pine Technical Notes" (Version 3.91) they promise that

    "Unix Pine also understands message folders in other formats, such
    as ..., MH, ..."
            ^^
But how can you do this?  I could not find any further hint.
My folders are created by xmh, but that should be the same.

If pine itself cannot read MH/xmh folders, is there any utility that can
convert MH/xmh messages to pine files?

Preferably, pine should be able to _use_ MH/xmh folders, so pine and xmh
could be used together.  But this is not in the cards, I presume? :-(

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From: Pierre Thibaudeau <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 12:46:19 -0500 (EST)

> could be used together.  But this is not in the cards, I presume? :-(

I had problems myself with this feature.  Here is what I found.

Pine appends the value of the <Path:> statement in .mh_profile to your 
$HOME directory name.  This will be the path where Pine will look for mh 
folders.  For example, if your <Path:> in .mh_profile is:
Path: mh-folders
and you <Go> #MH/project, Pine will look for the directory 
$HOME/mh-folders/project
By the same token, #MH/[] will refer to the collection of folders found 
in $HOME/mh-folders.

This might fit your case.
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