Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpscdc!schmitz From: schmitz@hpscdc.HP.COM (John Schmitz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Extra blank lines in MHL Message-ID: <5740005@hpscdc.HP.COM> Date: 10 Jun 89 00:34:07 GMT References: <840@csisles.Bristol.AC.UK> Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara Div. Lines: 32 Re: suppressing blank lines after date when using mhl > And try as I may I have been unable to suppress that blank line, > anyonme got any helpful hints? How's this? *** mhlsbr.c.orig Thu Jun 30 10:01:19 1988 --- mhlsbr.c Fri Jun 9 16:48:20 1989 *************** *** 1001,1007 cptr -> c_text = ap; (void) fmtscan (c1 -> c_fmt, buffer, sizeof buffer - 1, dat); ! c2 -> c_text = concat (buffer, "\n", NULLCP); free (ap); return; --- 1001,1009 ----- cptr -> c_text = ap; (void) fmtscan (c1 -> c_fmt, buffer, sizeof buffer - 1, dat); ! /* don't add the \n, please ! c2 -> c_text = concat (buffer, "\n", NULLCP); */ ! c2 -> c_text = concat (buffer, "", NULLCP); free (ap); return; No guarantee, but I was annoyed by this too, so I tried this just now and it seems to work fine.