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From: craig@med.unc.edu (Ron Craig)
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Subject: Re: incorporating message in repl
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Date: 8 May 91 20:43:48 GMT
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In article <1991May5.155751.10841@unlinfo.unl.edu> sanjiv@hoss.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia) writes:
>In <2820ED5C.27526@orion.oac.uci.edu> bstankie@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bozo) writes:
>
>>What is the best way of incorporating a message in a reply?  I have
>>seen a number of messages that put '>' at the beginning of each line
>>how is this done?  
>
>In /bin/mail, use ~m to include the message being replied to.  It indents the
>original message by a tab.  I used to do global substitution on tab till I
>switched to elm.

Add the following line to your .mailrc file to get the '>' instead of tab:
set indentprefix=>

That should do it!
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