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NAME
b2m - convert old Emacs Rmail Babyl format to mbox format
SYNOPSIS
b2m < babyl-file > mbox-file
DESCRIPTION
b2m accepts Babyl format mail (as used by older versions of Rmail in GNU Emacs) on stan‐
dard input, and converts it to mbox format on standard output. Babyl was the storage for‐
mat used by Rmail prior to Emacs 23.1. Since then, it uses standard mbox format. This
program is distributed with GNU Emacs.
OPTIONS
The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for long option names.
-V, --version
Display version information.
-h, --help
Display basic usage information.
SEE ALSO
The Babyl format is described in the file etc/BABYL in the Emacs distribution. Rmail is
documented in the GNU Emacs manual, which you can read using Info, either from Emacs
or as a standalone program.
AUTHORS
b2m was originally written by Ed Wilkinson. Francesco Potorti updated it according to the
GNU coding standards.
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the
copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this document under the
conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is dis‐
tributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this document into another
language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission
notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.
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