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- From: alan@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: How to interpret when the end of piece of mail is reached?
- Keywords: mail, sh, script
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.160232.10446@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 16:02:32 GMT
- References: <1992Nov8.205909.21877@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov8.214458.17317@prl.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Nov8.214458.17317@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
- >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...
- >
- >The delimeter is a line that begins with: From<space>
- >
- >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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- So when I have a message like this one, which has been split up by
- some ignorant user putting something supid, but reasonable eg:
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- From Henry the eighth's time onwards, the English Established church,
- the Church of England, has allowed divorce.
-
- Then this is now a new message?? Sorry, I think that the unusal
- sequence of control codes is much better than the looking for an
- usual sequence of printable letters.
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