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