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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# This script reads a block of message headers on stdin, and converts them
+# to an emacs-lisp string (quoting  all dangerous characters) and then 
+# uses the `gnudoit' program to cause a running Emacs process to invoke
+# the `bbdb-srv' function with that string.
+#
+# This has the effect of causing the running Emacs to display the BBDB
+# record corresponding to these headers.
+#
+# See the Emacs side of things in bbdb-srv.el for more info.
+#
+# A trivial application of this is the shell command:
+#
+#    echo 'From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>' | bbdb-srv.perl
+#
+# which will cause the corresponding record to be displayed.
+# A more interesting application of this is:
+#
+#    setenv NS_MSG_DISPLAY_HOOK bbdb-srv.perl
+#
+# which will hook BBDB up to Mozilla (Unix Netscape Mail and Netscape News
+# versions 3.0b2 and later only.)
+#
+#	-- Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>, 25-apr-96
+
+# spawn in the background and return to the caller immediately.
+if (fork == 0) { exit 0; }
+
+$str="(bbdb-srv \"";
+while(<>)
+{
+  # quote most shell metacharacters with backslash.
+  s/([\\"`$#^!])/\\\1/g;
+  # but quote ' as \047
+  s/'/\\047/g;
+  # and just for kicks, turn newlines into \n
+#  s/\n/\\n/g;
+
+  $str = $str.$_;
+}
+$str=$str."\")";
+
+exec "gnudoit", "-q", $str;
+exit 0;