Re: 'import -r' file format?

Arnoud (galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl)
Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:32:42 +0200 (MET DST)

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Hardy Griech <rgriech@ibm.net> wrote:
> Could you please explain, how a line starting with ">From " will be
> decoded. To my understanding the mailbox format cannot be transparent
> (that's the reasons, why the SOUP->Yarn format of VSoup will change
> from "mn" to "bn" and "un" to "Bn").

The UNIX mailbox format is quite old, and according to many not
very well thought through. Basically, you don't "encode" or "decode"
lines starting with "From " you just escape such a line by putting
a ">" in front of it. An existing line with ">From " will not be
escaped in any way.

Galactus

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