Re: [Pan-devel] Downlowading messages from Pan Newsreader

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 11 May 2021 17:18:56 -0600
Jack via "Discussions of Pan source code hacking."
<pan-devel@nongnu.org> wrote:

> On 5/11/21 4:43 PM, Beata Kasprzyk wrote:
> > Hi Everyone!
> > My name is Beata and I am a 5th year student of Econometrics from
> > Poland.
> >
> > Recently, I have been learning the text-mining methods and I would 
> > like to download messages from Polish Usenet groups via Pan
> > Newsreader to use as dataset in my analysis.
> > I have downloaded messages in the past, and they were saved in .txt 
> > format, unfortunately now the data is downloaded in .msg format.
> >
> > I would be grateful if you could help me figure out why I am no
> > longer able to download messages as txt files.
> >
> > Thank you in advance!
> > Beata Kasprzyk  
> 
> Hello Beata,
> 
> I'm not certain myself, but are you sure you are not just seeing a 
> change in the file extension?  Have you checked that the .msg files
> are not plain text?  If not, I would try using the "file" command (on
> Linux) which usually does a pretty good job of saying what the file
> type actually is.

Pan's .msg files are plain text.