Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!killer!osu-cis!mstar!karl
From: karl@mstar.UUCP (Karl Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Poll on shar formats
Message-ID: <893@mstar.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 88 03:44:59 GMT
References: <868@fig.bbn.com>
Reply-To: karl@mstar.UUCP (Karl Fox)
Organization: Morning Star Technologies, Columbus, Ohio
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In article <868@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>The shar stuff I just released only puts out the leading 'X' when
>the first character is a non-alphabetic.
...
>As a minimum, for safety when going through mail systems, etc.,
>the lines I protect need that protection.

Lines beginning with "From" will get a ">" stuck in front of them when
passing through some mail systems if the "X" is omitted.
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Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies ...!{att,cbosgd,osu-cis,pyramid}!mstar!karl