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- From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
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- Subject: Re: VAM/VMS mail file format
- Keywords: mail ascii
- Message-ID: <fish.711815819@news2.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 14:36:59 GMT
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- dejesus@archimedes.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus) writes:
-
- >I need to know if there is a way, on a Unix machine, to read/convert a
- >mail.mai file which was ftp'd from a VAX machine.
-
- >Here's the deal: mail is received on a VAX periodically. Also periodically
- >(every 15 minutes) a Unix machine will ftp to the VAX and get the mail.mai
- >file, which contains uuencoded data. The problem is that the mail.mai file
- >is not regular ASCII format, and cannot be stripped/decoded the way a
- >Unix mail file can.
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- >To eliminate the obvious responses before they are made: I cannot just
- >forward or bounce the mail from the VAX machine to the Unix one (which is
- >why we're ftp'ing it - long story), and I cannot do the conversion on
- >the VAX because it would require me to log in and do it manually, and what
- >I'm trying to do is automate this (of course, if you know of a way to
- >automate the conversion on the VAX, *please* let me know!).
-
- >With that in mind, what do you recommend? I see converting the file on
- >the receiving Unix machine as the best option, but I'll need either a
- >converter program/script, or information about the .mai file format so
- >I can write one myself. Any help will be greatly appreciated!!
-
- what you need to do is just write a VMS DCL .com file that joes into mail
- does a read/new, extract/all and then ftp put's the extracted file to the
- unix box - i can send you a .com file i have that loops thru and picks only
- certain ones (using dir/from i think) -fish
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