2010-10-15



Unfortunately the keys of  the  great  ``Antrieb''  keyboard  got
stuck from time to time.  It's no worth working like this.  Now I
have another keyboard (with US layout) instead.  (<Alt right>  is
removed  as  well.)   I  can type twice as fast with the smoother
keys, but sadly it hasn't written ``Antrieb'' on it. :-(



Today for the first time I extracted a shar (shell archive).   It
were  three files which included a description of how (basically)
you had to do it.  I automated the steps of course.  This result-
ed in a rather nice command line:
     for i in orig/VMAIL.* ; do
     sed '1,/^#!/d' "$i" | sh
     done
Note the use of sed to strip the comment header.

In a similar task these days the first two lines of a file should
been  stripped.  The existing solution made use of wc(1) and bash
arithmethics.  How easy is
     sed 1,2d
?  People, you really gotta know sed! :-)



I read a lot on the nmh stuff and tried several things.

The charset conversion on output was actually very fast to accom-
plish.  I piped the ISO-8859-1 formated text through iconv(1):
     mhshow-charset-iso-8859-1: iconv -f iso-8859-1 | %s
This is a solution that does it for the moment.  It surely  needs
further research and, anyway, it's only part of the problem.

I also polished up my mh_profile.

The shar from above was `vmail', a curses frontend  for  MH  with
vi-like  key  bindings.  It is pretty old and I hardly could find
documentation about it.  I'd love to have a closer  look  at  it.
Yes, it is oppositional to some of MH's design goals, but anyway,
it is worth a close look.  First it needs to be ported to  modern
systems.  Think I should query the nmh mailing list about it.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>