Re: [TCLUG:17658] email client -- NT dual boot

[Luke Francl <fran0382@tc.umn.edu>]

On Mon, 15 May 2000, Mike Hicks wrote:

> Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 15 May 2000, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote:
> > 
> > > | 1) Is there an easy way to migrate data from Netscape mail folders to
> > > | Pine mail folders?
> > > |
> > >
> > > Probally not.
> > 
> > Actually, I bet you could.  I've looked at netscape mail folders, and they
> > looked like plain old text files, same as the other mail formats I've
> > seen.  If you couldn't just plug things in, I bet you could write some
> > perl or sed to make them fit.
> > 
> > Of course, this is all theoretical -- I haven't done it myself! ;)
> 
> The main problem I see is that the NT version of Netscape (and probably
> Pine, too) probably wants to use CRLF to mark the end of a line, while
> they will just use LF in Linux.  That conversion could cause some
> problems..

perl -i -p -e 's/\r//' [filenames...]

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