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From: Andrew.Vignaux@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andrew Vignaux)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Minor annoyance with inc
Message-ID: <1990May30.080327.20050@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 30 May 90 08:03:27 GMT
Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin)
Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
Lines: 44

inc version: MH 6.7 #31[UCI] (downstage.comp.vuw.ac.nz) of Wed May 2 ...
options: [BSD43] [BSD42] [MHE] [DUMB] [UK] [MHRC] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [BIND]
         [SENDMTS] [SMTP] [SPRINTFTYPE=int]

Since people installed mh 6.7, I've noticed that all of my Unix mbox
"inc"ed messages are coming out with lots of white space between the
header and the body.  E.g.

[...]
	From: Andrew.Vignaux@comp.vuw.ac.nz
	Message-Id: <9005280225.AA04410@downstage.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
	To: Andrew.Vignaux@comp.vuw.ac.nz		<*A*>
							<*C*>
							<*A*>
							<*B*>
	test
[...]


minus the <*?*>s.  The original mbox message looked like:

	From Andrew.Vignaux@comp.vuw.ac.nz Mon May 28 14:25:21 1990
[...]
	From: Andrew.Vignaux@comp.vuw.ac.nz
	Message-Id: <9005280225.AA04410@downstage.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
	To: Andrew.Vignaux@comp.vuw.ac.nz		<*A*>
							<*B*>
	test
	test
[...]

I think the "extra" stuff is generated like this.  The first <*A*>
comes at the end of the last header line, the <*C*> is generated by
the explicit putc in scan(), and the <*A*> and <*B*> are returned in
tmpbuf from the first BODY field.

Is this deliberate?  Surely only 2 linefeeds (one blank line) are
needed to separate the header from the body.

[ You don't really need my .sig.  You've seen my mail address 6 times :-]

Andrew
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