Re: Editing a 2GB+ file

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

But I thought T-bird was supposed to be the basis for the new Eudora? Or
is that yet another empty promise? I tried T-bird a couple of years ago
and found it awful, but much will have changed.


At 10/28/2008 12:10 AM, you wrote:

> I don't know T-bird's format,
> but from the Eudora side, it's all boringly simple. One can muck around
> in Eudora .MBX files as much as one likes, with no real damage
> threatened. I'd close Eudora first, of course. Eudora offers to re-index
> altered .MBX files when it is re-launched.
>
> > Great explanation.
> >
> > What about converting Eudora *.MBX files to Thunderbird? There are a few
> > programs that claim to do that. It sounds as if all you have to do is
> > search and replace to exchange the "From ???@???" to "From
> > - Tue Oct 20".
> >
> > Norman
> >
> > On 10/27/08, Bill Troop
> > mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> > > > According to Wood, Eudora uses
> > > > the string ???@??? instead of the
> > > > sender's e-mail address in the From_ line.
> > >
> > > Yes, that seems to be what it does, reliably. But there is no
> > > blank line preceding it, just the CR/LF pair ending the content of the
> > > previous message.
> >
> >
> >
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> Harry Binswanger
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