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From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
Subject: Re: Header stripper
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1991 20:10:30 GMT
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mjo@irie.ais.org (Mike O'Connor) writes:

>Sorry...  poor choice of words in my initial post.  I not only don't
>want to SEE the headers, but I also don't want to KEEP the headers.  I
>use elm, and find that I am making large folders that are half
>headers!  I would like some automagic way of stripping those headers.  

Some time back I wrote the thdr filter to do just that for mail messages
inbound to notesfiles.  It uses the regexp package (every program should
be a learning experience).  Now for the incantation:

It's available via anon-FTP from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in utils/thdr .

/pbp
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