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From: jromine@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: MH & Filenames
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Date: 14 Mar 91 00:22:01 GMT
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sjohn@GYPSY.HAC.COM (Sherie Johnson) writes:
>It appears that MH puts a '#' sign infront of file names being sent a mail.
>What is the significance, if any, with the "#" sign? Is this MH's
>way of saying that the mail was processed?

Yes.  Most sites use a prefix character to denote scratch files which
are removed each night, and MH follows this convention.  You should
build MH to use the prefix character your system uses for scratch
files.  Other popular choices for this character are comma and underscore.
--
John Romine