Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!umix!metavax!oxtrap!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: replies Message-ID: <8209@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 2 Jul 88 23:05:58 GMT References: <8806222136.aa15110@note.note.nsf.gov> <8806231658.aa14871@ICS.UCI.EDU> <26220@bbn.COM> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.mail.mh Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 21 As quoted from <26220@bbn.COM> by jwalsh@bbn.com (Jamie Walsh): +--------------- | In article <8806231658.aa14871@ICS.UCI.EDU> goog@a.cs.okstate.EDU (GOOG ??) writes: | >how do i get it to appear on the lines with nothing on them...so that there | >is a solid body of >'s down the lefthand side of the page? | | Easy, DELETE the empty lines (and while you're at it, the previous +--------------- Bah, humbug. Try this on for size: body:component="> ",compwidth=0,formatfield="%<(null)> %|%(putstr)%>" ^ ^ To use a different insert character (I use "|") change the characters pointed to by the carets (^). (I don't know if the "compwidth=0" is necessary, but "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" -- it took me 3 years to figure out the incantation above, I'm not going to risk losing it!) -- Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery DELPHI: ALLBERY For comp.sources.misc send mail to ncoast!sources-misc