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1 | .\" See section COPYING for copyright and redistribution information. |
| 2 | .TH b2m 1 | |
| 3 | .SH NAME | |
| b83b70b8 | 4 | b2m \- convert old Emacs Rmail Babyl format to mbox format |
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5 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 6 | .B b2m | |
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7 | < |
| 8 | .I babyl-file | |
| 9 | > | |
| 10 | .I mbox-file | |
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11 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 12 | .B b2m | |
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13 | accepts Babyl format mail (as used by older versions of |
| 14 | .BR Rmail | |
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15 | in |
| 16 | .BR "GNU Emacs" ) | |
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17 | on standard input, and converts it to mbox format on standard output. |
| 18 | Babyl was the storage format used by Rmail prior to Emacs 23.1. Since | |
| 19 | then, it uses standard mbox format. This program is distributed with | |
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20 | .BR "GNU Emacs" . |
| 21 | .PP | |
| 22 | .SH OPTIONS | |
| 23 | The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for long option names. | |
| 24 | .TP | |
| 25 | .B \-V, \-\-version | |
| 26 | Display version information. | |
| 27 | .TP | |
| 28 | .B \-h, \-\-help | |
| 29 | Display basic usage information. | |
| 30 | . | |
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31 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 32 | The Babyl format is described in the file | |
| 33 | .B etc/BABYL | |
| 34 | in the Emacs distribution. | |
| b83b70b8 | 35 | .B Rmail |
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36 | is documented in the GNU Emacs manual, which you can read using |
| 37 | .BR Info , | |
| 38 | either from Emacs or as a standalone program. | |
| 39 | . | |
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40 | .SH AUTHORS |
| 41 | .I b2m | |
| 42 | was originally written by Ed Wilkinson. Francesco Potorti updated it | |
| 43 | according to the GNU coding standards. | |
| 44 | .SH COPYING | |
| 45 | Copyright | |
| 46 | .if t \(co | |
| 47 | .if n (C) | |
| 114f9c96 | 48 | 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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49 | .PP |
| 50 | Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this | |
| 51 | document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are | |
| 52 | preserved on all copies. | |
| 53 | .PP | |
| 54 | Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of | |
| 55 | this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that | |
| 56 | the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of | |
| 57 | a permission notice identical to this one. | |
| 58 | .PP | |
| 59 | Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this | |
| 60 | document into another language, under the above conditions for | |
| 61 | modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated | |
| 62 | in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation. | |
| 63 | . | |
| 64 | .\" arch-tag: 7586e605-c400-447e-82ff-4d38e3c0a37d |