Hello, andrew;

19 Nov 02 17:43, andrew clarke wrote to Robert Bull:

 >> "upgrade path"  ;-)  I wanted WIMM to do both things, that is,
 >> report to a log, _and_ make a summary report.

I misspoke - what I meant was, AIUI, WIMM can _either_ make a report, _or_ 
copy found messages to a personal area, but not both at once.  I wanted 
both, so parsed the report.

 ac> What does the report look like?

After Sendmsg has posted it, like this;
======================[ BEGIN QUOTE ]======================
Ä System reports (2:250/501.4) ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Reports Ä
 Msg  : 3 of 3                              Rcv Uns Loc
 From : WIMM                                2:250/333.4     21 Nov 02  21:33:56
 To   : Robert Bull                         2:250/333.4     21 Nov 02  21:33:56
 Subj : WIMM report, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 21:33:56
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
New personal echomail; WIMM, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 21:33:55

ARTWARE
  21 Nov 21:33:51  Msg from Gerald Miller (wimm)
  21 Nov 21:33:51  Msg from andrew clarke (wimm)

OP1.CHAT
  21 Nov 21:33:53  Msg from Martin Foster (Notice of closure)

--- SendMsg
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FWIW, the batch file is;
======================[ BEGIN QUOTE ]======================
{at}echo off
for %%a in (wimmtemp.bat wimm.rpt) do if exist %%a del %%a > nul
logecho New personal echomail; WIMM, $W $D $N $C$Y, $h:$m:$s > wimm.rpt
:: NEXT LINE WRAPPED
logecho fgrep -xs "$D $N" wimm.log | lmod [] ["|"] mawk
-f wimmxtrc.awk 
  [">>"] wimm.rpt >> wimmtemp.bat
call wimmtemp.bat
del wimmtemp.bat > nul
logecho set now=$W $D $N $C$Y, $h:$m:$s > wimmtemp.bat
call wimmtemp.bat
:: NEXT LINE WRAPPED
sendmsg c:\bt\msg\reports "WIMM,2:250/333.4" "Robert
Bull,2:250/333.4" 
  /s"WIMM report, %now%" < wimm.rpt
del wimmtemp.bat > nul
set now=
echo Deleting reports older than 7 days:
delage c:\bt\msg\reports\*.msg 7
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and the AWK script is;

======================[ BEGIN QUOTE ]======================
/WIMM Personal mail found in / {
  sub(/\!$/, "", $NF)
  echo_tag = $NF
  echo_done = 0 + 0
                               }
$0 ~ /WIMM Msg from / && $0 !~ /rcvd, skipping/ {
  if(echo_done == 0 + 0) {
    printf("\n%s\n", echo_tag)
    echo_done = 1 + 0
                         }
  if($4 ~ /WIMM/) $4 = ""
  printf("  %s\n", $0)
                                                }
=======================[ END QUOTE ]=======================

I'm not a programmer, but have more small utility programs than one can 
shake a stick at.  LOGECHO and DELAGE are Horst Schaeffer's;

LOGECHO 2.0 (c) 1997 Horst Schaeffer
ECHO using time/date information:
    $D  day (01..31)    $h  hour
    $M  month (01..12)  $m  minutes
    $N  month (Jan..Dec)    $s  seconds
    $H  month (hex 1..C)    $c  sec/100
    $Y  year (00..99)
    $C  century (19|20)
    $W  day of week (Sun..Sat)
    $V  day of week (0..6)
    $Z  day of year (001..366)
    $$  '$'

DELAGE filespec days [/R][/L]
delete file(s) if age >= days
/R - include r/o files
/L - list only, don't del
Ver. 1.2 (c) 1995, Horst Schaeffer

Both are in the PBATS archive, that used to be called HORST31.ZIP, from 
BFDS sites or from Horst's Web site

http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/

 - and, practically everyone knows Chris Dunford's fgrep  :-)


     Regards,

              Robert.

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