BBDB-SRV.PL(1)						      General Commands Manual						    BBDB-SRV.PL(1)

NAME

       bbdb-srv - Converts Mail-Headers to an Emacs-Lisp String.

SYNOPSIS

       echo Some Headers | bbdb-srv

DESCRIPTION

       This  script  reads  a block of message headers on stdin, and converts them to an emacs-lisp string (quoting  all dangerous characters) and
       then uses the `gnudoit' program to cause a running Emacs process to invoke the `bbdb-srv' function with that string.

       This has the effect of causing the running Emacs to display the BBDB record corresponding to these headers.

       See the Emacs side of things in bbdb-srv.el for more info.

       A trivial application of this is the shell command:

	  echo 'From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>' | bbdb-srv.perl

       which will cause the corresponding record to be displayed.  A more interesting application of this is:

	  setenv NS_MSG_DISPLAY_HOOK bbdb-srv.perl

       which will hook BBDB up to Mozilla (Unix Netscape Mail and Netscape News versions 3.0b2 and later only.)

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.  Instead, it	has  docu-
       mentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

SEE ALSO

       bbdb-areacode-split(1), bbdb-unlazy-lock(1).  bbdb-srv(1).
       The bbdb is fully documented by The insidious Big Brother Database for mail and news, available via the Infonode bbdb

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was	written by Joerg Jaspert (JJ) <joerg@goliathbbs.dnsalias.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
       others).

								  March 31, 2002						    BBDB-SRV.PL(1)