burst1

Usage

Overview

Burst considers the specified messages in the named folder to be Internet digests, and explodes them in that folder.

If -inplace is given, each digest is replaced by the “table of contents” for the digest (the original digest is removed). Burst then renumbers all of the messages following the digest in the folder to make room for each of the messages contained within the digest. These messages are placed immediately after the digest.

If -noinplace is given, each digest is preserved, no table of contents is produced, and the messages contained within the digest are placed at the end of the folder. Other messages are not tampered with in any way.

The -quiet switch directs burst to be silent about reporting messages that are not in digest format.

The -verbose switch directs burst to tell the user the general actions that it is taking to explode the digest.

It turns out that burst works equally well on forwarded messages and blind-carbon-copies as on Internet digests, provided that the former two were generated by forw or send.

Files

^$HOME/.mh_profile~^The user profile

Profile components

^Path:~^To determine the user's nmh directory
^Current-Folder:~^To find the default current folder
^Msg-Protect:~^To set mode when creating a new message

Defaults

`+folder' defaults to the current folder
`msgs' defaults to cur
`-noinplace'
`-noquiet'
`-noverbose'

Context

If a folder is given, it will become the current folder. If -inplace is given, then the first message burst becomes the current message. This leaves the context ready for a show of the table of contents of the digest, and a next to see the first message of the digest. If -noinplace is given, then the first message extracted from the first digest burst becomes the current message. This leaves the context in a similar, but not identical, state to the context achieved when using -inplace.