Subject: Re: Saving mail to floppy?

From: [email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket)
Date: 18 Feb 1995 04:17:57 GMT

Comes here Mr. J. Wagner with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine" group in this
article on 15 Feb 1995 23:24:33 -0800:

 + Is it possible to save e-mail to floppy...preferrably in a text format 
 + that could be accessed by Wordperfect?  If so how do I do it? 
 + Needless to say I'm using Pine. :)

Pine saves mail as a flatfile which can be downloaded to the localdrive
either using ftp or some serial based comm.pkg which can later be edited
by yes...Wordperfect.

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Guptill)
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 95 03:02:04 GMT

>either using ftp or some serial based comm.pkg which can later be edited

Pine/VMS users will have to use the EXTRACT or PRINT functions to get files
which are readable by WordPerfect, as VMS Mail uses a non-standard
compressed format for mail.

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From: Dave Saville <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 11:13:08 +0000

> either using ftp or some serial based comm.pkg which can later be edited

NB - I have done this from pine 3.91 on a sun box to floppy using Export. 
Now the odd bit. When I tried to import it into wordperfect 6.0a, wp said
it needed converting. No suprise there it was a flat file. However wp
insisted it was in wp 4.2 format or something. I said no its a flat ascii
file. Upon loading it was all continuous text with smilies. I tried again
and let wp have its own way and it loaded fine! 

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From: Willie Sullivan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 07:56:26 GMT

> and let wp have its own way and it loaded fine! 

I notice that WP5.2 tells me the same thing. However, I think this 
conversion is actually converting a Unix ASCII file to a DOS ASCII file.
I have a dial up account and I've noticed that all text files I download 
from the Internet host have to be converted in this way.

Another way to do the conversion (at least it works for me) is to first 
open the text file using the  MS-DOS EDIT and then save it in the regular 
way. You can then open it using any other editor as plain DOS ASCII.