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From: drew@cgou11.enet.dec.com (Steve Drew)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: scan and format files
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.204402.11331@e2big.mko.dec.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 20:44:02 GMT
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I was hoping to be able to create a format file for 'scan' 
that displayed only the last n characters of the from address
instead of just displaying the first n characters.
	
For example a message received from a ALLIN1/DECNET system could then
be displayed as:

1   1454 ako::Fred.Smith   Mon Mar 25 11:11  test message

	rather than

1   1454 kaoo01::mrgate::F Mon Mar 25 11:11  test message

                        ^
                        from users name not seen.
                        
There doesnt seem to be any supporting syntax in the mh-format
commands for this.

Anyone have any ideas?

thanks.

	Steve.


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