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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:02:36 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu>,
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Subject: Re: How to read the Mailinglist Archive?
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In the last episode (Jul 22), zhihuizhang said:
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to read the Archive files of FreeBSD (like
> 19960616.freebsd-bugs, 19960526.freebsd-current)?  It is not in text
> format.

They should be in standard mailbox format.  I usually cat together a
years' worth of archives, then run "mutt -f 1996.freebsd-bugs" to read
a particular archive.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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