Subject: Ascii archiving of complete mail tree

From: "Warren H. Minix" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 14:25:03 -0400

Is there any reasonable way to extract all mail messages to ascii text
without selecting individual messages.  Even the ability to do it with a
single folder without the select etc. stuff would help some.  I have need
of keeping a lot of records and have no guarantee of having access to Pine
in the near future ( I can always just gzip the whole directory structure
if I did).
	I really do not care about the file size or organization as long
as the info was retrievable.  Thanks for any suggestions.

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Warren H. Minix ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics ~~
Colburn Laboratory ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newark, Delaware 19716-3110 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
U.S.A. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: "Dr. David Zakai" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 21:07:15 -0400

> Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 14:25:03 -0400
> From: Warren H. Minix <[email-masked]>
>       Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics
>       Colburn Laboratory
>       Newark, Delaware 19716-3110

>Is there any reasonable way to extract all mail messages
>to ascii text without selecting individual messages?

You did not identify your hardware/software combination,
so I can give only general instructions.

Two methods are discussed in the Pine 3.93 documentation file:
export and print.

First, modify your configuration.  At the main menu,
select SETUP, then Configuration.  Turn on two features
in the configuration list:

[X] enable-aggregate-command-set
[X] print-formfeed-between-messages

Return to the mail folder (typically INBOX or saved-messages)
or newgroup folder.

At the index screen, press the following keys in order:

; a a e

(select, all, apply, export)

Enter name of ascii file to which to write messages.

!!! QUESTION FOR PINE DEVELOPMENT TEAM !!!
When =exporting=, is there a way to put unique character
between messages (i.e., record delimiter), like the
formfeed character?

The Print method WILL insert a formfeed between each message.

; a a y

(select, all, apply, prynt)

You may see other menus if you have enable two other features
in the Setup/Configuration screens:  printing index screen
in addition to messages, and custom print commands.

If your environment consists of a desktop PC, running terminal
emulation software (VT100), which connects by modem and phoneline
to a Unix Internet Gateway running Pine, this is quite slow, but
effective.

Your Ascii printer can either be a true printer, or it can
be a disk file.  If you use true-blue MS-Kermit, or C-Kermit
from Columbia University <ftp://watsun.cc.columbia.edu/pub/kermit>,
set your "printer" to a file by typing at the prompt:

MS-Kermit>set printer c:\myfile.txt

Procomm and other popular telecommunications software also allows
one to set up a "printer" which is a disk file.

David Zakai
[email-masked]