Mailing articles to oneself for saving

[Robert Reed]

I wrote a program a year or more ago which serves this specific function
under 4.2BSD.  I make no claims for it working anywhere else, but it's very
cheap and fast, and short enough to include here.  It works as a data sink,
receiving a stream piped from vnews or rn, and dumps the result with no
additions into the user's mail spool file:

/* mbox - add delimiters to news article and dump in mail queue
 */
#include <stdio.h>

main(argc,argv)
	int argc;
	char **argv;
{
	char spool[60];
	FILE *fd;
	char line[200];

	/* Open this user's spool file */
	sprintf(spool, "/usr/spool/mail/%s", getenv("USER"));
	if ((fd = fopen(spool, "a")) == NULL) {
		fprintf(stderr, "mbox: Could not open spool file");
		exit(1);
	}

	/* Stream the standard input through, preceding and following with mail
			delimiters */
	fprintf(fd, "\n");
	while (gets(line) != NULL) 
		fprintf(fd, "%s\n", line);
	fprintf(fd, "\n");

	/* Done */
	fclose(fd);
}
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When I was little, we had a a quicksand box.
I was an only child... 
...eventually.
--Steve Wright
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Robert Reed, CAE Systems Division, tektronix!teklds!bobr