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From: Kevin.Lowey@f117.n270.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Kevin Lowey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: RE: RUBBISH IN MESSAGES (SIGNA
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Date: 31 Jan 90 00:30:00 GMT
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 >There also may be another solution.  If the first line of the signature
 >is three dashes (-) in a row, the UFgate software MIGHT not forward
 >the rest of the message.  I'll try it in this message and let you
 >know the results.


I tried it, and it doesn't make any difference, the footer still comes
through.  The only solution to this problem is a voluntary reduction in
the size of the .signature files on the part of our UUCP friends.


I am going to write a few utilities that solve a few things:


1) A utility to delete everything but the FROM header information from
   the Fidonet side of the messages.


2) A utility that converts the "soft" CR/LF used by some OPUS and other
   systems into hard CR/LF so that terminals on uucp that don't use
   wrapping will not have problems.  (This might be solvable using a
   different termcap entry, but I'll just try to fix it in the gateway).



Unfortunately, since .signature files don't have a standard format,
there is no way I can write a utility to strip them out.

- Kevin "gatekeeper" Lowey (1:140/43 - LOWEY@SASK.USask.CA lowey@dvinci.UUCP)


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