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From: stripes@wam.UMD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Forewarding & mh
Message-ID: <8906271618.AA21953@cscwam.UMD.EDU>
Date: 27 Jun 89 16:18:07 GMT
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Hi, I'm haveing problems createing a filter file that does exactly what I
want.  I've gotten fairly close, but not quite.  
I want to include the text of an old message in with my new message, and I want
a single ">" charactor in front of each line (just like the F command in rn).
The closest I have gotten is this filter:
:
body:component=">",compwidth=1,offset=0,length=80,overflowtext="}"

Which is *very* close to what I want, the first line is great, I get
">what they said", but for every other line I get " >what they said",
(there is a space before the arrow for every line but the first)
I have changed all the variables I could think of that would effect it,
but no dice.  I also have written a shell script that will give the proper
style, but I don't know any "clean" way to get mh to use it.  So I'm looking
for either a way to get the filter to properly insert the arrows, or to
get repl to include text after processing it with a shell script.
(I use raw mh, as well as dxmail when I'm an an X display, so an alias for
repl isn't exactly what I want...)
Someone else has probbly aready done this before, so if you know how please let
me know.  I will summrise anything sent to me if it is any diffrent from what
gets posted.  Thanks world...
-- 
           stripes@wam.umd.edu          "Security for Unix is like
      Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The          Mutitasking for MS-DOS"
      "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
            Be pleasant no matter how much it hurts.
                -- Kirk, "Elaan of Troyius," stardate 4372.5.