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From: dce@mips.UUCP (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: rn -hunrecognized
Message-ID: <460@quacky.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 11:20:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 17 11:20:34 1987
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Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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Back in March, I discovered the -h option to rn. I had heard of
this beast before, and I finally got to a point where I needed
to use it.

I quickly found out that while I could get rid of stuff like
the Message-id, Reply-to, Distribution, and Date lines (none
of which I really cared for), I couldn't get rid of crap like
Checksum, X-*, and Received. These were really getting to be
a pain recently (if I have to wade through half a screen of headers,
I'm pretty likely to hit 'n') so I went looking for the code that
handles -h to add these.

Instead, I found that the option "-hunrecognized" will toss all
of the header lines that rn doesn't understand. I tried it out
and it works very nicely.

This value isn't documented in the manual page, and it is very
useful. I think it would be a good idea to announce this to a
very wide audience, and I'm not the person to do this.

-- 
David Elliott		{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!dce