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BURST(1)							      BURST(1)

NAME
       burst - explode digests into messages

SYNOPSIS
       burst [+folder] [msgs] [-inplace | -noinplace] [-mime | -nomime]
	    [-automime] [-quiet | -noquiet] [-verbose | -noverbose] [-version]
	    [-help]

DESCRIPTION
       Burst considers the specified messages in the named folder to be Inter‐
       net digests, and explodes them in that folder.

       If -inplace is given, each digest is replaced by	 the  “table  of  con‐
       tents”  for  the	 digest	 (the original digest is removed).  Burst then
       renumbers all of the messages following the digest  in  the  folder  to
       make  room for each of the messages contained within the digest.	 These
       messages are placed immediately after the digest.

       If -noinplace is given, each digest is preserved, no table of  contents
       is produced, and the messages contained within the digest are placed at
       the end of the folder.  Other messages are not  tampered	 with  in  any
       way.

       If  -automime  is  given, burst will try to determine if the message is
       formatted with MIME and contains MIME parts of  type  “message/rfc822”.
       If it does, it will burst the message using MIME formatting rules.  The
       -mime switch can be used to enforce the use  of	MIME  formatting.  The
       -nomime switch will force burst to use RFC 934 rules.

       The  -quiet  switch directs burst to be silent about reporting messages
       that are not in digest format.

       The -verbose switch directs burst to tell the user the general  actions
       that it is taking to explode the digest.

       It  turns  out  that burst works equally well on forwarded messages and
       blind-carbon-copies as on Internet digests, provided  that  the	former
       two were generated by forw or send.

FILES
       $HOME/.mh_profile   The user's profile.

PROFILE COMPONENTS
       Path:		   To determine the user's nmh directory.
       Current-Folder:	   To find the default current folder.
       Msg-Protect:	   To set mode when creating a new message.

SEE ALSO
       inc(1), msh(1), pack(1)

       Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation (RFC 934)

DEFAULTS
       +folder		   The current folder.
       msgs		   The current message.
       -noinplace
       -automime
       -noquiet
       -noverbose

CONTEXT
       If  a  folder is given, it will become the current folder.  If -inplace
       is given, then the first message burst  becomes	the  current  message.
       This  leaves  the  context ready for a show of the table of contents of
       the digest, and a next to see the  first	 message  of  the  digest.  If
       -noinplace  is  given,  then the first message extracted from the first
       digest burst becomes the current message.  This leaves the context in a
       similar,	 but  not  identical, state to the context achieved when using
       -inplace.

BUGS
       The burst program enforces a limit on the number of messages which  may
       be  burst  from	a single message.  This number is on the order of 1000
       messages.  There is usually no limit on the number  of  messages	 which
       may reside in the folder after the bursting.

       Although	 burst	uses  a sophisticated algorithm to determine where one
       encapsulated message ends and another begins, not all digestifying pro‐
       grams  use  an encapsulation algorithm.	In degenerate cases, this usu‐
       ally results in burst finding an encapsulation boundary prematurely and
       splitting  a  single  encapsulated  message  into two or more messages.
       These erroneous digestifying programs should be fixed.

       Furthermore, any text which appears after the last encapsulated message
       is  not placed in a separate message by burst.  In the case of digesti‐
       fied messages, this text is usually an “End of digest”  string.	 As  a
       result of this possibly un-friendly behavior on the part of burst, note
       that when the -inplace option is used,  this  trailing  information  is
       lost.   In practice, this is not a problem since correspondents usually
       place remarks in text prior to the first encapsulated message, and this
       information is not lost.

nmh-1.6				January 1, 2001			      BURST(1)
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