From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22979 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rupa Schomaker (list)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: How to just save a group of messages to a file? Date: 13 May 1999 06:34:15 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160798 32055 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:39:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:39:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28495 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 09:36:16 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAB07457; Thu, 13 May 1999 08:35:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 13 May 1999 08:35:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA16768 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 08:35:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from gw.rupa.com (postfix@cx309091-a.alsv1.occa.home.com [24.1.169.211]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28466 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 09:34:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by gw.rupa.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9F1601D1D8; Thu, 13 May 1999 06:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22979 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22979 Lets say that I have 100 or so messages that I just want to save to a file (whether mailbox format or not). Ok, that sounds easy. About half of them are large (100+k) HTML messages that may or may not be formatted correctly. I tried: 1) process mark the messages and use Xo -- worked up to the point I came across and HTML message. pgnus decides to render it with w3 before saving. HTML is badly formated, w3 stops, the save stops. :( Not to mention that the message is a big monster table so it would take about 3 minutes to render (we already know this though). 2) Select the messages and use Of -- I'm asked for each file where I'd like to save it. Why can't I just say "use this file for everything"? So, I start hitting enter for everything and it goes to the next HTML message and procedes to try to render it and fail. :( These messages are in an IMAP message store, so I can't just copy 'em out (well, I could but not easily). What am I missing (just want to save the bytes that are in the messages to a file, no rendering or interpreting or anything else)? -- Rupa (rupa@rupa.com for normal email) Please don't email duplicate replies.