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From: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: m_getfld.c  Does anyone have one that doesn't use ^A?
Message-ID: <3832@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 89 20:38:06 GMT
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In article <1641@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> gregg@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (gregg.g.wonderly) writes:
>From article <3805@orca.WV.TEK.COM>, by jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles):
>> Does anyone have a version of m_getfld that does not use \001's as message
>> seperators?  I don't want to start another mailer-header war, but \001's
>> are not for me.  I would like to use the 'from_ user date' line as the
>> message seperator.
>
>MH 6.5 (and later I guess, maybe before too) understands the UUCP From
>line.  The function m_unknown() is called from scan() (~mh/uip/scansbr.c) to
>discover if there is a UUCP From line there.
>
>After all, MH only needs separators in messages it is inc()ing or
>rcvstore()ing.  Your message is not clear really, do you mean elsewhere,
>like mail format files?  The output of packf?

I'm looking into 'inc'.  Actually, it's scansub.c, in an older version of
mh-mail.  What I would like to do is have the mailer set-up so that it
would not need to have ^A's seperating messages.  The version of 'inc' that
we're running here needs ^A's, else it thinks that all of the messages in
the spool file belong as one huge message.  (This is not good :-)

Any suggestions rather than tossing the mh-mail that we're using now?

	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles		jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM