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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Gate - simple mail->news->mail gateway suite (Part 1 or 1)
Message-ID: <3137@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: 21 Dec 90 21:53:44 GMT
References: <1990Dec20.031515.6249@supernet.haus.com>
Organization: BBN Systems and Technology, Inc.
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In <1990Dec20.031515.6249@supernet.haus.com> cluther@supernet.haus.com (Clay Luther) writes:
>I wrote this one afternoon to handle the gating of mail to news and news to
>mail.  It is written in script, and tries not to get too fancy.
...

Get the spool file into text, I assume?
>S=`cat $SFILE`

If your message has some text that looks like mail
From: your mother
for example, you'll get confused.  How about this, instead
	S=`sed /^$/q <$SFILE`

If I'm wrong about the original S=`` line, then never mind.
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