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diff --git a/mcon/U/mboxchar.U b/mcon/U/mboxchar.U new file mode 100644 index 0000000..45e47c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/mcon/U/mboxchar.U @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +?RCS: $Id: mboxchar.U 167 2013-05-08 17:58:00Z rmanfredi $ +?RCS: +?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi +?RCS: +?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic License, +?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution. +?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of +?RCS: that same Artistic License; a copy of which may be found at the root +?RCS: of the source tree for dist 4.0. +?RCS: +?RCS: $Log: mboxchar.U,v $ +?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.2 1995/07/25 14:13:12 ram +?RCS: patch56: ensure ctrl-A characters are visible in prompt (WED) +?RCS: +?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1994/05/06 15:11:22 ram +?RCS: patch23: added support for MMDF mailboxes (WED) +?RCS: +?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:09:15 ram +?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release. +?RCS: +?MAKE:mboxchar: cat package shsharp Myread Oldconfig +?MAKE: -pick add $@ %< +?S:mboxchar: +?S: This variable contains the eventual value of the MBOXCHAR symbol, +?S: which is how a C program can identify a file as a mailbox. +?S:. +?C:MBOXCHAR: +?C: This symbol contains a character which will match the beginning +?C: of a mailbox file. +?C:. +?H:#define MBOXCHAR '$mboxchar' /**/ +?H:. +?T:CTRLA +?INIT:CTRLA=`echo a | tr a '\001'` +: determine how to determine when a file is a mailbox +case "$mboxchar" in +'') dflt=F;; +?X: The following ^A is two-chars to ensure it will print out -- WED +"$CTRLA") dflt='^A';; +*) dflt="$mboxchar";; +esac +$cat <<EOM + +In saving articles, $package wants to differentiate between saving to +mailbox format files and normal files. It does this by examining the +first character of the file in question. On most systems the first line +starts with "From ...", so the first character is an F. Other systems +use magic cookies like control codes between articles, so one of those +would be first. For example, MMDF messages are separated with lines of +four control-A's (you may specify one as ^A, i.e. caret A). + +EOM +rp="What's the first character of a mailbox file?" +. ./myread +mboxchar="$ans" +case "$mboxchar" in +'F') ;; +"$CTRLA") ;; +'^A'|'^a') mboxchar="$CTRLA";; +*) cat <<'EOM' + +You will need to edit the shell script mbox.saver to properly append an +article to a mailbox. The arguments to the script are documented in +EOM + case "$shsharp" in + false) echo "comments in mbox.saver.std.";; + true) echo "comments in the shell script itself.";; + esac +esac + |