Explanation on the use of the available files

http://www.iahc.org/archives/newdom.zip
This file contains a directory tree with a compressed website containing the entire available archives of the three different newdom lists up to this week. This archive is 11 megs and unzips to about 32 megs. On a DOS system, unzip this with the command

pkunzip -d newdom

Then use your browser to open the local file newdom\index.html On a UNIX system use the GNU unzip command

unzip -a newdom

to strip off DOS [CR] characters as it is unzipped. Or pick up http://www.iahc.org/archives/newdom.tar.gz which is only 5.5 megs

This local website archive may be useful for doing searches.

http://ww.iahc.org/archives/mbx.zip
This archive contains the same messages but with further processing to turn them into standard mailbox format files which also shrinks them to about 14 megs unzipped. For DOS

pkunzip mbx

and for UNIX

unzip -a mbx

The archives are in 7 files, one for each subdirectory of the iiia.org list, one for the ar.com list and one for the vrx.net list. The mailbox files were tested with both PINE on UNIX and with Eudora on Win 3.1. The archive has the files named with a .MBX extension for Eudora and with DOS [CR] characters. Other email programs will probably read these files by placing them in the correct directory and renaming them with the correct extension.

Since the files are rather large I have made two utilities available to break them into smaller chunks.

http://www.iahc.org/archives/msplit
This is a PERL program that splits a mailbox into separate files with a fixed number of messages per file. For instance

msplit ar.mbx 200 ar .mbx

Would take the messages from "ar.mbx", count out 200 at a time and deposit them in new files named by sticking "ar", a number and ".mbx" together, i.e. ar0000.mbx, ar0001.mbx. On dos make sure the prefix is no more than 4 characters.

msplit ar.mbx 1 ar .txt

Would break out the messages into individual file ar0000.txt, ar0001.txt which may be useful with some UNIX email programs or search tools.

PERL is available for MS-DOS, Macintosh, Windows... http://www.perl.com

http://www.iahc.org/archives/msplit.bas
This is a DOS qbasic program that does the same job as the PERL script. If you have QBASIC, then the following command will run it

qbasic /run msplit.bas

At this point it prompts for the filename, num of messages, prefix and suffix. This program will probably also work with BASICA or GWBASIC but I don't seem to have a copy to test with. Try the following

basica
load "msplit.bas
run
system

or use "gwbasic" if your system doesn't have the "basica" command.

gwbasic
load "msplit.bas
run
system

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