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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)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <26220@bbn.COM> by jwalsh@bbn.com (Jamie Walsh):
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| 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
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