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From: jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek)
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Subject: Re: filter files for replying to messages
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Date: 7 Sep 90 12:54:07 GMT
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On Friday, September 07th, 1990, at 11:14h GMT,
in message <972@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> ,
on the subject of filter files for replying to messages  you write 
about your filter file, which I used to send this reply.  The command I
used to send this reply was:

	repl -filter replfilt.jgmiller

My filter file looks like this (but not indented by a tab):

	Date:formatfield="On %(weekday{text}), %(lmonth{text}) \
	%02(mday{text})th, 19%02(year{text}), at \
	%02(hour{text}):%02(min{text})h %(tzone{text}),",nocomponent
	Message-Id:formatfield="in message %{text},",nocomponent
	Subject:formatfield="on the subject of %{text} you write ",nocomponent

Yours worked fine the way it was.  But (and this is why I sent the reply
to the list, instead of replying directly)... your use of %(putstr) and
%(putnumf) was redundant.  The default action is to print, and the field
widths (like %02) also work by default.  My filter file doesn't use them...
though I hear that some earlier versions of MH might need them.
My version is:

version: MH 6.7 #1[UCI] (eeyore.cns.syr.edu) of Wed Aug 22 13:23:31 EDT 1990
options: [BIND] [BSD42] [BSD43] [DUMB] [FOLDPROT='"0700"'] [MHRC]
         [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [RPATHS] [SUN40] [TYPESIG='void'] [ZONEINFO]
         [SENDMTS] [SMTP] [POP]

Could this be a problem in an earlier version of MH?  Ideas, anyone?

--Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY
  jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, JDPEEK@SUNRISE.BITNET        +1 315 443-3995