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From: lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Problems with forwarding PostScript files
Message-ID: <1638@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 1 Feb 90 19:46:50 GMT
References: <807@granite.dec.com>
Organization: Athabasca University
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In article <807@granite.dec.com> rwood@dec.com (Richard Wood) writes:
>I can see three potential solutions:

>- Modify the postscript definition so that a dash is not a legal character in 
>the first column.  Highly unlikely, eh?

>- Modify ULTRIX/UNIX mail handling programs to stop adding the extra
>characters, 

>- Advise everyone and anyone not to forward .PS documents.

- Run the file through  sed -e 's/^- -/-/'  and get back to work.
  (Or write an equivalently stupid program in whatever language
   is available on the target machine.)
-- 
Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
     {alberta,decwrl}!atha!lyndon || lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA

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