[Info-vax] How to Avoid Old Software, Old Bugs?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <00B47F18.D87A3459 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 

> I read most mulipart messages on Linux these days.  Mail comes into my VMS
> system and Ihave it setup to allow me to read the mail on VMS, Linux or my
> Mac.  

Maybe I should do that.  Although it is automated to some extent, 
extracting the B64-encoded stuff, decoding it, and launching the 
corresponding application is something I would rather avoid.

> However, when I need to search for a message, as you've noted, there
> is nothing like the VMS mail interface to do so.

Indeed!  And when that isn't enough, there is MLSEARCH, which can search 
over multiple folders, files (and hence disks), use wildcards, etc., 
i.e. similar to SEARCH.  It is written in a mixture of Fortran and 
Bliss.  :-)