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Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Suppose I've got a file name, /home/kai/Mail/mail/misc/42, say.  And
> suppose further I know what backend this file must come from -- '(nnml
> "") in this case.
> 
> Is there a standard way of converting such a file name to a group name
> and an article number?

Nope -- all the computations go the other way around.

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