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- From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
- Subject: Re: How to interpret when the end of piece of mail is reached?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.012504.15927@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Keywords: mail, sh, script
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: Sequoia Peripherals, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov8.205909.21877@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov8.214458.17317@prl.dec.com> <1992Nov12.160232.10446@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 01:25:04 GMT
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- >>> How can I tell where one message ends in mail and where one begins?
- >
- >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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- I don't know if this is true everywhere, but on the systems I
- know the mailers precede any line beginning with the word From
- with > to deal with exactly this problem.
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