Subject: export whole folder?

From: R Russell Neuswanger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 08:52:37 -0400 (EDT)

I can back up a folder by exporting each message to a file in my 
home directory, appending each to the previous, and then ftp'ing that 
from here (my pine account's on a machine in the bowels of the building 
somewhere) onto a diskette -- but the process is tedious, and the result 
messy. Is there a good way to transfer a whole folder intact onto a 
diskette, off that other machine, onto a diskette stuffed into the 
workstation I sit at? LaMail, which comes bundled with the OS/2 package 
(at least the one we have here), is pretty flaky, but it does transfer 
whole folders onto diskette without supervision, in the background, while 
I get something else done; surely pine can do better??

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From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 08:59:24 -0400 (EDT)

> I get something else done; surely pine can do better??
The folder is just an ascii text file, usually stored in the subdirectory 
'mail' under your home directory.  Just transfer that file to diskette in 
the same way you were transfering the file you were exporting to.

  e.g., copy mail/<foldername> a:     if attached to your file server.

This has nothing to do with Pine.

Don Sugarman
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