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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: How to get ">" symbol when referring to articles?
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Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 16:22:24 EST
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> Is there an elegant way to get the ">" symbol before articles when
> referring to other people's postings?

Some of the news software (e.g., "postnews") does this automatically.
Also try
	1,$s/^/> /
or some appropriate modification of this.