Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!macman
From: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: vms mail
Keywords: mail, extract
Message-ID: <499@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 88 09:50:42 GMT
References: <371@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
Lines: 17

In article <371@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> fsimmons@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Frank Simmons) writes:
> Is it possible to extract a message from the mailer without having to read
> /display a portion or all of it?

Yes it is. I have received a DCL command file which does just that.
Can't dig out the exact code from memory, but it sets sys$output to NL:,
then calls up mail and extracts just as many messages as indicated by
the new mail count.

-- Danny

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