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From: jpn@panda.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: leading comments
Message-ID: <786@panda.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 23:36:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 23:36:31 1985
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References: <318@luke.UUCP> <157@gargoyle.UUCP>
Reply-To: jpn@panda.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
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Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Keywords: rn

In article <157@gargoyle.UUCP> ihnp4!gargoyle!keith (Keith Waclena) writes:
>Now a quick question: (our) rn always prepends a line like ``Article
>whatever from net.random'' whether I save via s or w. This screws our
>mail program; if I say ``use mbox format'' mail won't recognize the
>file as such unless I edit out that offending line.. can anyone tell
>me how to get rn to leave out that line?

The problem is in the shell script, mbox.saver

I changed this line to output a line in the format "Article: xxxx of net.foo"
turning that line into a proper header line, and so have not had any problems
with mail since.

 John P. Nelson (decvax!genrad!panda!jpn)