This archive contains two tools:

  import          Prepare an instruction list for stuffer.
  stuffer         Push links to external mail$*.mai files into an existing
                  mail index file.

These can be used to restore the links from inside a mail index file to
a set of mail$*.mai files.  Normally you should never need to use these 
tools, but when attempting to restore a poorly managed system, they can
be valuable.

These could also be used to merge nonVMS mail messages into MAIL.  In order
to do this though you would have to write a preprocessor that converted
all of those messages to separate files and gave them appropriate 
MAIL$*.MAI names.

For more information, read IMPORT.COM and STUFFER.FOR (they are both very
simple).

Source archive:

  http://seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu:8000/pub/SOFTWARE/mail_mai_tools.zip

Archive Contents

  stuffer.exe_axp  (OpenVMS 6.2/Alpha)
  stuffer.exe_vax  (OpenVMS 6.2/VAX)
  stuffer.for      (source code, Fortran 77)
  stuffer.obj_axp  (OpenVMS 6.2/Alpha)
  stuffer.obj_vax  (OpenVMS 6.2/VAX)
  import.com       (DCL procedure)
  readme.txt       (this file)

Regards,

David Mathog
mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech 
29-APR-1997
