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- From: RICHARDE@UV3.EGLIN.AF.MIL ("Eric F. Richards")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Dumb question of the week
- Message-ID: <9212222255.AA22998@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:58:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
- Lines: 23
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- I wrote:
- > I have a sequential mail file with messages in it that I want to copy/move
- > to a "normal" ISAM mail file. Am I missing something obvious in the FM
- > on how to do this? It doesn't seem possible short of mailing the messages
- > back to myself (which keeps me from seeing the original To:, Subj: lines).
- >
- > If it can't be done with the MAIL user interface, has anyone written
- > anything using callable MAIL to do this?
-
- ... and the answer is:
-
- MAIL> SET FILE dev:<dir><sequential-mail-file>
- MAIL> COPY/ALL <new-folder> <ISAM-mail-file>
-
- Thanks to Bruce A. Hudson (hudson@ac.dal.ca) for beating everyone else
- to the correct answer first.
-
-
- Eric F. Richards
- Tybrin Corp
- Eglin AFB, FL
- richarde@eglin.af.mil
- 904/882-9795
-