From: BillC55122@aol.com Subject: Perl script to strip AOL headers Attached is a MacPerl droplet that will read in an America Online mail file saved as text, and will output a BBEdit Lite text file on the desktop with the trailing AOL "headers" stripped off. These headers at the end of the file tended to confuse file readers such as Easy View, and are probably not widely useful once you've debugged sendmail (but who among us has done a thorough job of that?). It requires MacPerl by Matthias Neeracher and Tim Endres (and, of course, Larry Wall), which is available for free download at the sumex-aim mirror nearest you. It should work with MacPerl 4 or MacPerl 5, though I have only used it with MacPerl 5.1.3r2 (21 Jan 1997). To use this droplet, first save AOL mail as a text file, to anywhere but the desktop. Next, select and drop the text files onto the droplet file, which will write an output text file in the desktop folder. 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