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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: [nosave] in outgoing messages...
Message-ID: <397@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 12 Feb 90 19:27:06 GMT
References: <29101@amdcad.AMD.COM> <1990Feb12.140134.22356@cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +011 (415) 966-1151
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In article <1990Feb12.140134.22356@cs.dal.ca> bill@biomel.UUCP writes:
> In article <29101@amdcad.AMD.COM> indra@amdcad.AMD.COM (Indra Singhal) writes:
>> I tried what Dave suggested about adding [nosave] as part of the text of
>> the message to prevent it from being appended to the =sent file. It did
>> not work.
>
> I hear a lot of complaints about this not working.  The correct syntax
> is that there must be a space, i.e. [no save].  It might be worth
> expanding the ELM syntax not to be so picky, given the number of
> problems this causes.

A curious change: Check out my source to version 2.01 gamma:

in "savecopy.c", about 160 lines into the file:

	    if (strncmp(buffer, DONT_SAVE, strlen(DONT_SAVE)) == 0 ||
	             strncmp(buffer, DONT_SAVE2, strlen(DONT_SAVE2)) == 0) {

		/* second test added due to an imcompatability between the
		   documentation and the software!  (Thanks Bill!) */

	      fclose(message);
	      fclose(save);
	      chown(savename, userid, groupid);	
	      return(TRUE);
	    }

where, in "defs.h", DONT_SAVE and DONT_SAVE2 are defined as:

#define DONT_SAVE	"[no save]"
#define DONT_SAVE2	"[nosave]"

As you can see, it used to like either of 'em.  Any scoop on why
someone would have changed that??

						-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California

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