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- $Id: ANNOUNCEMENT,v 1.2 1994/05/09 02:41:29 chris Released $
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- SPLITDIGEST 2.0
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- What is it?
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- Splitdigest undigests a mail folder which may contain one or more digest
- files concatenated together. The result is that each of digest files are
- extracted into its own file and placed into a form suitable for reading with
- a mail user agent (such as with "mail -f" or "elm -f"). Each message in the
- extracted digests can then be read and replied to individually.
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- Splitdigest can be easily extended to handle a variety of digest files
- simultaneously simply by modifying its configuration file. No recompilation
- is required. At present, splitdigest comes preconfigured to handle digests
- sent by news-digests.mit.edu, the ANNOUNCE channel digest of linux-activists
- and the MSDOS-Ann digest of SimTel.
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- This is a useful program to have if you are on mailing lists that distribute
- their mail in digest formats. Splitdigest allows you to read and reply to
- messages in those digests on an individual basis, thus making reading and
- replying to mail in such digests more pleasant.
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- Differences from Undigest
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- Splitdigest differs from undigest in the following ways:
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- 1. Splitdigest can handle folders with multiple digests concatenated
- together. The present version of undigest that I have is not yet able to do
- this.
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- 2. Splitdigest relies on an external configuration file which is read at
- runtime. This allows it to be easily configured to handle a variety of
- digests with different formats. The templates for the names of the files to
- be generated are also specified in the configuration file. The digest format
- that undigest handles appears to be hard-wired into its code, and thus it is
- unable to handle (without rewriting and recompiling) digests from
- news-digests.mit.edu, etc. Undigest appears not to be able to handle
- different digest formats simultaneously.
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- 3. You can feed input to splitdigest in a pipe. Undigest currently cannot
- operate on piped input. (This is a dubious benefit in splitdigest currently,
- since I have not yet implemented the capability for it to output data
- through a pipe!)
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- 4. Splitdigest can handle multiple files specified on the command line.
- Undigest handles one file at a time. (This is incidentally one of my prime
- motivations for writing splitdigest's undigestion capabilities.)
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- 5. And of course, the internal operation is completely different. (There are
- undoubtedly other things that differ as well. This section is not meant to
- be exhaustive.)
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- Where To Find It
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- I have uploaded splitdigest-2.0.tar.gz to sunsite.unc.edu. It is (at the
- date of this notice) probably in the /pub/Linux/Incoming directory. I am
- recommending that it be moved to:
- /pub/Linux/system/Mail
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- Copyright Policy
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- Splitdigest is Copyright (c) 1994 by Christopher Heng. All rights reserved.
- It is released under the conditions of the GNU General Public License
- version 2. In addition, you may not remove or alter any of the copyright
- notices and/or conditions for use and distribution. There is absolutely no
- warranty for the program, its documentation and its output. See the file
- COPYING in the distribution for details.
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- How To Reach The Author
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- I can currently be reached at the following internet email address:
- chris%cyfhsite@csah.com (Christopher Heng, Singapore)
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- LSM entry
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- Begin2
- Title = Splitdigest
- Version = 2.0
- Desc1 = Splitdigest undigests a file which contains one or more digests
- Desc2 = concatenated together. The files generated can be read by using
- Desc3 = "mail -f" and each message in the digest can be read/replied to
- Desc4 = as individual messages. Splitdigest can be easily configured to
- Desc5 = recognise a variety of digest formats without recompilation.
- Author = Christopher Heng
- AuthorEmail = chris%cyfhsite@csah.com
- Maintainer = Christopher Heng
- MaintEmail = chris%cyfhsite@csah.com
- Site1 = sunsite.unc.edu
- Path1 = /pub/Linux/system/Mail
- File1 = splitdigest-2.0.tar.gz
- FileSize1 = 25k
- Required1 = Any Unix or unix-clone.
- Required2 = The GNU C compiler (version 2.X and above).
- CopyPolicy1 = GNU General Public License version 2.
- CopyPolicy2 = You may not remove or alter any of the copyright notices and/or
- CopyPolicy3 = conditions for use and distribution.
- Keywords = digest, undigest, mail, mailing list
- Entered = 06MAY94
- EnteredBy = Christopher Heng
- CheckedEmail = chris%cyfhsite@csah.com
- End
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