CRLF in imported mbox files

Michael Richardson <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:52:48 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.nmh.devel
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Today, I downloaded four archived ".eml" files from mailarchive.ietf.org, so
that I could work with a thread from July.    After "inc -file XXX" on them,
I noticed that the results have CRLF. That is, I see ^M on every line in mh-e.
Ick.  So we have an assumption that local files are in local line-ending.

{I should have just booted up thunderbird, and used the imap interface to
mailarchive...}

Yeah, I can run "dos2unix" on them, or tr -d...
I feel that perhaps inc should just do the right thing: CR is just whitespace.

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