NAME

       b2m - convert old Emacs Rmail Babyl format to mbox format

SYNOPSIS

       b2m < babyl-file > mbox-file

DESCRIPTION

       b2m  accepts  Babyl  format  mail  (as  used  by  older versions of Rmail in GNU Emacs) on
       standard input, and converts it to mbox format on standard output.  Babyl was the  storage
       format used by Rmail prior to Emacs 23.1.  Since then, it uses standard mbox format.  This
       program is distributed with GNU Emacs.

OPTIONS

       The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for long option names.

       -V, --version
              Display version information.

       -h, --help
              Display basic usage information.

SEE ALSO

       The Babyl format is described in the file etc/BABYL in the Emacs distribution.   Rmail  is
       documented  in  the GNU Emacs manual, which  you  can  read  using Info, either from Emacs
       or as a standalone program.

AUTHORS

       b2m was originally written by Ed Wilkinson.  Francesco Potorti updated it according to the
       GNU coding standards.

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the
       copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this document under  the
       conditions  for  verbatim  copying,  provided  that  the  entire resulting derived work is
       distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this  document  into  another
       language,  under  the  above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission
       notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.

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