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NAME

6       b2m - convert old Emacs Rmail Babyl format to mbox format
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SYNOPSIS

9       b2m < babyl-file > mbox-file
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DESCRIPTION

12       b2m  accepts  Babyl  format mail (as used by older versions of Rmail in
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14       dard output.  Babyl was the storage format used by Rmail prior to Emacs
15       23.1.  Since then, it uses standard mbox format.  This program is  dis‐
16       tributed with GNU Emacs.
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OPTIONS

19       The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for long option names.
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21       -V, --version
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25              Display basic usage information.
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SEE ALSO

28       The  Babyl  format is described in the file etc/BABYL in the Emacs dis‐
29       tribution.  Rmail is documented in the GNU  Emacs  manual,  which   you
30       can  read  using Info, either from Emacs or as a standalone program.
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AUTHORS

33       b2m  was originally written by Ed Wilkinson.  Francesco Potorti updated
34       it according to the GNU coding standards.
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COPYING

37       Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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44       document  under  the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
45       entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a  per‐
46       mission notice identical to this one.
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48       Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this docu‐
49       ment into another language, under the  above  conditions  for  modified
50       versions,  except that this permission notice may be stated in a trans‐
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