Re: Editing a 2GB+ file

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Robert, I have looked at a few Eudora MBXs and the delimiting
structure largely appears to be From with an initial capital. The
first message is not preceded by a carriage return, but all (most?)
subsequent ones are.
> Please look at your MBX file. Jon implies that many emails are
> all packed into one MBX -- which must be so, because otherwise
> how would it grow to 2Gb? If that is the case, I'd like to know
> *exactly* what characters signify the end of one message and the
> beginning of the next message. Can you, or somebody, look in
> MBX and tell me -- exactly? Or if somebody has a *small* MBX
> file, can they ZIP it and attach it to me privately?...
>
> The fact that there's a ton of plain text in a file doesn't make
> it a "plain text file".
>
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> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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