Subject: Re: Managing Unix message folders with Windows Pine

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:12:20 -0700

Probably the easiest solution is to convert the folders to MTX format
(PC-Pine's native format) before downloading them.  If you can wade
through a compile, grab

	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z
AND	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap-utils.tar.Z

Uncompress and untar them both in the same directory, and compile
mbxcvt.  Then you can convert a folder with

	mbxcvt oldfolder mtx newfolder

Good luck!

--DLM

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On 9 Sep 1996, Nancy McGough wrote:

> From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Managing Unix message folders with Windows Pine
> Date: 9 Sep 1996 14:53:16 -0400
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> I've got tons of Unix message folders that are gzipped on my Unix
> hosts.  I'm downloading them to my Windows machine and gunzipping them
> and using Pine to read, reply-to, and reorganize them.  When I open up
> these folders they are READONLY so I can't delete messages and they
> don't flag messages that I answer.  One way to solve this problem is to
> select all messages in a folder and then save them all to a new folder
> (using `; a a s folder.new').  Then folder.new is not READONLY.  What
> I'm wondering is if anyone has any suggestions for ways to speed up
> this process of turning my Unix folders into read/writable Windows
> folders.  Does anyone have any scripts or conversion tools to do this?
> Also, I'm thinking that it might be better to use some other folder
> format, e.g., MH format, so if you have suggestions in this area,
> please let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nancy
> 
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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 9 Sep 1996 14:53:16 -0400

Thanks,
Nancy

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From: Tony Iannotti <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:09:06 -0400 (EDT)

> don't flag messages that I answer.  One way to solve this problem is to

I think if you use the attrib -r <filename> command at the dos prompt on
them (it takes wildcards) this should fix it. I think there is also a
Windows File manager menu choice for Attributes that will do the same
thing. Essentially you just need to turn the read-only flag off at the dos
level. 
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