Some people on this list might be able to help you if you could indicate
which platform you are moving the list from and which platform you are
moving the list to.

For example, if moving from VM to unix, you could simply ftp the archives
to the new archives directory and Listserv will re-build them on startup.
From the unix side, you could just do a "get listname" and "put listname"
on the new server and Listserv will re-format them on startup.

--Trish

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Perry Wolf wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> I'm on a mailing list that is being shut down and we are trying to move the
> user list and archives from one server to another (temporary server to make due
> for the time being).  I can get the user list (I think it's the LIST command)
> and can query the list (using QUERY *@*) to get back text files.
>
> I've successfully installed listserv Lite (free version) on my computer, and
> want to try to import at least the archives, and possibly the user list if
> it is at all possible.  I have all of the old archives (GET LOGxxxx for all
> the files), but it doesn't look like anything that the listserv can use.  Seems
> like I need to rebuild all of the listname.logxxxx and listname.subject files.
> Is that at all possible?
>
> If I could rebuild those *.log* and *.subject files, then moving the archives
> to a new (permanent) server would be no problem.  I'll try contacting the
> current list admin (for the dieing list) to see if I can get all of those
> files, but it'll probably be unlikely.
>
> Any suggestions?
>