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thoran · 16 Apr 2003, 08:04 AM

Hello,

This version's major enhancement/bug fix is to do a complete rollback at any stage in the conversion process if it is interrupted/terminated exited. I like things robust, so it is.

One unfortunate, though minor, side-effect of this is that some of the exit condition trapping code gets executed several times causing repetitious display of messages. This one is especially frustrating---help?...
Otherwise there's the usual minor cleanups.

Email me for a copy since I don't wish to post it here anymore... It is too long to keep posting, I don't like **** and other lovely words being excised, it is too long to fit into a single post, and I can't think of any other reasons right now.

The next version will try to incorporate the use of standard in and out so as to allow it to be used as part of a chain of utilities. I may not do this since the input is a number of files, rather than a single stream, so piping is not obviously appropriate. I'd have to pipe in a list of files to be converted. Arguments for and against?

thoran

P.S. Look out for fm2mbox.sh, which takes a collection of zipped mail archives and converts the lot to mboxes. It should be available in the next day or so. Note that fm2mbox does rely upon eml2mbox to do each extracted folder conversion. Also note that it also requires having "unzip" available.

16 Apr 2003, 08:04 AM	#10
thoran Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Earth Posts: 4	Release 2 Available Hello, This version's major enhancement/bug fix is to do a complete rollback at any stage in the conversion process if it is interrupted/terminated exited. I like things robust, so it is. One unfortunate, though minor, side-effect of this is that some of the exit condition trapping code gets executed several times causing repetitious display of messages. This one is especially frustrating---help?... Otherwise there's the usual minor cleanups. Email me for a copy since I don't wish to post it here anymore... It is too long to keep posting, I don't like **** and other lovely words being excised, it is too long to fit into a single post, and I can't think of any other reasons right now. The next version will try to incorporate the use of standard in and out so as to allow it to be used as part of a chain of utilities. I may not do this since the input is a number of files, rather than a single stream, so piping is not obviously appropriate. I'd have to pipe in a list of files to be converted. Arguments for and against? thoran P.S. Look out for fm2mbox.sh, which takes a collection of zipped mail archives and converts the lot to mboxes. It should be available in the next day or so. Note that fm2mbox does rely upon eml2mbox to do each extracted folder conversion. Also note that it also requires having "unzip" available.