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In <1437@pacsoft.com> mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik) writes:

>In an article, ebert@esfra.sub.org (Christian Ebert) writes:
>>Well, what is silly? The ^A -hack or the >From hack?

>I have to jump in here. Adding the SOH characters to beginning and end of
>every message is, IMHO, just plain evil. There should be absolutely no
>control characers (with the exception of whitespace) in a folder. Period.

Only one question: 

Why?

>Of course, the way things *should* have been done from the start is that
>each message is a file, and each folder a directory 

I agree. 

>(yes, there is MH, but
>the multi-message folder seems to be here to stay, unfortunately).  Ugliness
>like SOH or EOT in messages just doesn't fit with UNIX.

Once again: Why?

Well, assuming a system with multi-message folders:

What the h*ll is the _dis_advantage of the ^A hack? ( beside ideology :-)

I only see advantages of the ^A hack:

First advantage: You can detect the type of the file by the "magic" ^A^A^A^A

Second advantage: You don't have to *modify* the *BODY* of the message.

>And, yes, I *do* like tilting at windmills. :-)

Recognizing is the first step to recover :-))))

Best regards


Christian 
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