Can anyone help me with a quick fix? For various inane reasons, I'm demonstrating the possibility of using multiple, mutually-inclusive mail-readers under Linux -- mail, mailx, elm, pine, mutt, tkmail, exmh, etc.
So far, so good; except that yesterday I demonstrated exmh without first making a copy of my mailbox file (/var/spool/mail/<user>). So exmh has now taken 2500+ mail messages and converted them into separate files, which I somehow very quickly have to get back into a monobloc form in mailbox readable format (i.e chained together with an extra <cr> added between each -- and I don't know of any way to do this using cat or more/less). Anyome got a handy sed/awk/perl script to do this; or any any other quick-fix suggestion? Second query (related; but not urgent): does anyone know of a _known_ reliable large-file text editor? One which will handle 10, 15, 25 Mb text files without hiccup, doing search-&-replace on the whole file without barfing, screwing up the file, etc.? (Something like Programmer's File Editor, but running under Linux). It must be known to be reliable -- i.e. tried and trusted in real-life experience, not just "this should do the job". (I've been caught like that before! :( TIA msw -- Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT, Glastonbury, Somerset, England - BA6 9PH [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.co.uk/