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BURST(1) [nmh-1.2] BURST(1)
NAME
burst - explode digests into messages
SYNOPSIS
burst [+folder] [msgs] [-inplace | -noinplace] [-quiet | -noquiet] [-verbose | -noverbose]
[-version] [-help]
DESCRIPTION
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 mes-
sages 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
SEE ALSO
inc(1), msh(1), pack(1), Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation (RFC-934)
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.
BUGS
The burst program enforces a limit on the number of messages which may be burst from a
single message. This number is on the order of 1000 messages. There is usually no limit
on the number of messages which may reside in the folder after the bursting.
Although burst uses a sophisticated algorithm to determine where one encapsulated message
ends and another begins, not all digestifying programs use an encapsulation algorithm. In
degenerate cases, this usually results in burst finding an encapsulation boundary prema-
turely and splitting a single encapsulated message into two or more messages. These erro-
neous digestifying programs should be fixed.
Furthermore, any text which appears after the last encapsulated message is not placed in a
separate message by burst. In the case of digestified messages, this text is usually an
"End of digest" string. As a result of this possibly un-friendly behavior on the part of
burst, note that when the -inplace option is used, this trailing information is lost. In
practice, this is not a problem since correspondents usually place remarks in text prior
to the first encapsulated message, and this information is not lost.
MH.6.8 1 Jul 2003 BURST(1)
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