Yes,yes,yes, I have been made to look stupid with this one quite enough 
thank you.

It does work, I agree! In my haste, the exports when clean out of my head. 
Stoopid!!!

Unix - too much to remember!

Howard

At 12:13 02/11/00 +0100, you wrote:

> >  >MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
> >  >MAIL=$HOME/mbox
> >  >MAILTMP=$HOME/.mailtemp
> >  >maildir2mbox
> > Error. MAILTMP not set   (or something like that)
>
>Did you ever hear about the difference between environment variables and
>shell variables?
>
>You need to do
>
>export MAILDIR
>export MAIL
>export MAILTMP
>
>Regards; Frank

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