Re: Editing a 2GB+ file

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Carl Distefano wrote:
> The message delimiter, the
> so-called "From_ line", is distinct from the "From:" header. In
> standard Mbox format, the From_ line is preceded by a blank line and
> consists of the word "From" (no colon), followed by an email
> address, followed by a formatted date and time, like this:
>
> [newline]
>>From you@yourdomain.com Sun Oct 26 17:21:04 2008
>

FWIW, Tbird's inbox file has its messages set up like this:


 From - Mon Jul 07 13:11:23 2008
X-Account-Key: account2
X-UIDL: [struing of chra: u & lc, punct., numbers]
X-Mozilla-Status: 0019
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:

Return-Path: 
Received: [chain of routing, with ISP SMTP addresses]Message-ID:

<487259FE.8060501@eskimo.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:01:34 -0500
From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" 
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: xywrite@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: Standard font
References: <486BA882.6060101@eskimo.com>
<486E5BD0.1040701@eskimo.com>
<48724889.24024e0a.61fc.ffffddf3@mx.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <48724889.24024e0a.61fc.ffffddf3@mx.google.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.601 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS
X-Spam-Level:
X-Scanned-By-SAS: ScannedBySAS
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 128.91.55.43
Reply-To: xywrite@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Sender: owner-xywrite@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN
X-UIDL: Ah~!!+13"!Y2_!!9K="!

The thing I noticed though is that if an e-mail has an
attachment--zip, jpg, etc--that also gets incorporated in the
inbox--and probably contains non-ASCII chars. Will check in List
if I get time.

--
Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@eskimo.com