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In article <9301072058.AA14276@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
>Sorry, I posted the wrong reply.  Here's the correct one.
>
>On Tue, 29 Dec 92 14:37:09 EST tom@crc.doc.ca (Thomas Erskine) said:
>>In article <9212260325.AA18454@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> you write:
>>>If not, what is the *EXACT* command to give to "vi" in order to
>>>remove those ">"s?  Of course *ONLY* on those header lines; I'll
>>>accept any such occurances in the contents of the items (though
>>>not really gracefully...).
>>:1,$s/^>From /From /
>>Should fix any such lines in the file.  Unfortunately, if there were any
>>that were inside a message in that folder, those will also be un-marked.
>>I can't think of any automated way to avoid this.
>
>A private reply gave me the following alternative:
>    :%s/^>\(From .*\)/\1/c
>which askes for confirmation at each occurrance.

The "mbox format" requires that ALL lines beginning with "From "
be changed to ">From ".  This includes BOTH the body and the header.
The beginning of a new piece of mail is found by looking for "From "
in the beginning of the line.

--Dave
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