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From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast)
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Subject: Re: things i'd like to be able to do at what now?
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Date: 14 Apr 91 02:21:44 GMT
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Ed Vielmetti writes:
>these should be easy, since you have all of the stuff handy to you;
>appropriate hacks on the octopus book "append" script might well be
>enough.
>
>what now? edit addheader Fcc: +outbox
>what now? edit addheader cc: mh-users@ics.uci.edu
>what now? edit addheader X-Zippy-Quote: Yow!
>what now? edit rmheader cc:			# i.e. -nocc all
>what now? edit append-output grep domain.org /etc/hosts
>what now? edit shell-command-on-body sed -e 's/please/pretty please/'

what now? edit vi
A combination of "O", "dd","!}", and ":1,$ s/please/pretty please/"
would work just fine.  Faster too.  If you don't use vi, then maybe
it might be worthwhile to create these, but I (and probably other vi
users) probably won't.
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