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In article <289.25C6D777@weyr.FIDONET.ORG>
lowey@f43.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Kevin Lowey) writes:

   The only solution to this problem is a voluntary reduction in 
   the size of the .signature files on the part of our UUCP friends. 

I am not sure of this.  Read on.

   I am going to write a few utilities that solve a few things: 

   1) A utility to delete everything but the FROM header information from 
      the Fidonet side of the messages. 

   2) A utility that converts the "soft" CR/LF used by some OPUS and other 
      systems into hard CR/LF so that terminals on uucp that don't use 
      wrapping will not have problems.  (This might be solvable using a 
      different termcap entry, but I'll just try to fix it in the gateway). 

   Unfortunately, since .signature files don't have a standard format, 
   there is no way I can write a utility to strip them out. 

STOP!  Before you reinvent the wheel.  The utilities AWK and SED
(originally developed for Unix, but now available in all kinds of
places for DOS and OS/2) are what you want.  A simple script will take
care of 1 and 2 for you, and will allow you to easily change the
fields you want to remove, without re-compiling and all that.

As for "UUCP" signatures (most of us newsposters are on the Internet
now), they *do* have a standard format (unless a user has
underhandedly appended their signature to the end of their posting).
This format is a "--" followed by a newline, and it is tacked on the
posting by all standard newsposters before the signature.  Telling AWK
to simply delete everything after this string is a 15-minute task.

Hope this helps,
Mark
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Mark Towfigh, Racal Interlan, Inc.		   towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM

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