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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: How to interpret when the end of piece of mail is reached?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.214458.17317@prl.dec.com>
- Keywords: mail, sh, script
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov8.205909.21877@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:44:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.205909.21877@u.washington.edu>, micah@hardy.u.washington.edu (Micah Anderson) writes:
- > How can I tell where one message ends in mail and where one begins?
- > There isn't any obvious delimeter when I cat my mailbox...
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- The delimeter is a line that begins with: From<space>
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- Don't even think of following up with some theory that is based around
- four control-A's. Only brain-damaged user agents do that.
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- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
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- ``Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.'' -- Rob Pike
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