OpenEuphoria

Re: Question for Euman - viewer for email (msgs) in text format

• Posted by lakatzz at juno.com Oct 17, 2001
• 427 views

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 01:31:00 -0700 Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net>
writes:
> 
> Lee,
> 
> Ok, let's see:
> 
> Under Juno, each "folder" is a separate file, 
> "Fold000x.frm"; and
> "Directory.frm" is a file which has a list of all the 
> "Fold000x.frm" 
> files, together with some associated folder names?

Yes....


> So when you archive your Euphoria email to a text file, 
> you are essentially just saving the *Euphoria* folder to 
> one large text file, like the sample you sent. 

Correct...

> So it's just one file, you don't want to do this with 
> your other folders too? 

Oh I have many folder from Juno where I have saved to text
(archived) them.  

> If you *did* want to do this with your other Juno 
> folders, would they *all* be put into one file, or into 
> separate text files?

All are presently in separate files & saved by who the 
sender was.  In sample, those are some of the msgs I have 
received after signing up to your mailing list.  

I had thought to append/merge several small text together
to cut down on the number of files in my directory.

Depending on viewer is the problem.  

Example:  Dos's Edit can handle, view, files up to 250k.
My little Show viewer, I have been able to view files up
to 35 megs.
 
> Regarding use of a database:  I wouldn't think it would 
> be necessary, you just make a variable (sequence) which 
> has a place for every message, and in each of those 
> places you provide a space for From, Subject, Date, 
> and the message.

No viewer, editor will display & sort some of the fields
that our emailer pgm displays.  I kind of miss that.

In order to keep file sizes down to a minimum, I save to
text or what I like to call archive them.  Then delete
msgs from my Juno emailer pgm.  Then I edit the text file
& delete all file attachments & some of the header info.
By doing this, my final text file is usually 1/3 of what
it would be if in Juno's (Windoz) format.
 
> It could be done like this:

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Wooow...now all I have to do is figure out what all these
codes mean.

> Regarding "sounds complicated":  for pretty much *any* 
> program, after you've decided what you *want* the program 
> to do, you have to identify the variety of things the 
> program would *have* to do to accomplish the task you 
> wish, and perhaps something of the order it would have 
> to do them in.

Make a wish list, right?
 
> So what you need to do, in order to program this 
> application, is to *see* those *basic* functional 
> requirments, and then *one at a time*,  begin to
> attempt to implement them with program statements.

I got it...


Lee


 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <lakatzz at juno.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 3:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Question for Euman - viewer for email (msgs) in text 
> format
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:34:43 -0700 Dan Moyer 
> <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net>
> > writes:
> >
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > Thanks for replying here.
> >
> > > 1.  To make "a viewer to show & list the To, From,
> > > Subject, & date in a window similiar to the way my
> > > Windoz's emailer pgm does", we would have to know what
> > > your emailer's "To, From, etc" window
> > > *looks like*.  Can you describe it, or send a "screen
> > > shot" of it?
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