Re: [WinMac] Using Eudora mailboxes On a PC?

Thomas Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:18:18 -0500

>From: Cesar Morales <cesar@muttley.ucsd.edu>
>
>Does anyone know how to succesfully use Eudora mailbox files originally
>created on a Mac, but which must be imported, or used in a PC?
>
>1. converted eudora mac files to dos readable files (using Dos washer 1.1)
>and added the suffix ".mbx" to the converted files.
>
>2. copied them over the network to a PC running Windows NT which has
>Eudora lite installed on it and replaced the corresponding files (In.mbx,
>Out.mbx, etc) as well as added the new ones. I expected it to ask me to
>rebuild the table of contentsupon restarting the application and see the
>data saved in these files.

Open the mailbox files in BBEdit and using the save options choose DOS line
breaks. Name the file with the extension as you did before, *.MBX. PC
Eudora will open them fine now and should automatically rebuild the TOC
files.

 ______________________________________________________________________
 Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
 tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications
 www.wfubmc.edu/biomed Medical Center Blvd
 Tel 336.716.4493 Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
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