-+ SaveOut an arexx script for Spot the ultimate mail reader +-

Yet another Spot Rexx script by Anthony Brice that you just can't do without!

                -+ Version 1.1 - February 29th 1996 +-

What is it?
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SaveOut is an arexx script for spot that will either save out all the messages
in the current area as an ascii dump, or do the same for your entire message
base. I'm not sure how usefull the function to save everything out will be
for most of you but I have had requests to put the feature in from when people
used the old version, and I gather it's quiet a popular script :-)

It has support for archiving and deleting areas afterwards as well as other
options which can be configured on the config lines at the start of the script.
I strongly advise not editing the script unless you know what you are doing
with arexx as it is potentially destructive if you mess something up. But of
course you are free to customise it as much as you want for your own needs
even though I can't think of anything else it actually needs :) Just don't
blame me if it messes up after you've changed it as it left my system working
beautifully.

Within the script I've commented near on every function that I could be
bothered with so newcomers to spot and it's arexx functions can see what
the script does etc. Hopefully this will be helpfull to a few of you.

Changes since V1.0
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Added support for All message areas and not just the selected one if required.

DateStamp option is available although I've not written the filename bump
routine to use the option as yet. Same applies for the Delete option.

You can now specify a temp directory for the hard work to save on disk thrash
if you've got the ram spare to use for this.

You can now set Save out to use UserNames and not just the echo tagname.

SaveOut now cleans up after itself when you abort it in motion. It's totally
safe to do this now should you so wish.

You can now call the script externally and it will run Spot if not already
present so that you can run the script via Cybercron while you're asleep :)

All requestors are supressed when Saveout is called without spot running. This
is for obvious reasons detailed above. It defaults to backup all messages in
the script if this happens.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                 2619    5664  46.2% -lh5- 7f67 Feb 29  1996 SaveOut.Doc
[generic]                 1932    4427  43.6% -lh5- 83f8 Feb 29  1996 SaveOut.spot
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 Total         2 files    4551   10091  45.1%            Mar  1  1996