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adding Lines: line to postings

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From: Jerry Heyman
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:15
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My user community would very much like to have the Lines: line generated
in their article postings.  I've located the shell script that adds that
to the header, but I now have a question.

/usr/lib/newsbin/inject/pnews has a comment about the lines script.  It
basically says that you should uncomment Line A if you insist on having it,
and then comment out Line B.  This seems to be a relatively easy concept
until you see that Line B is really several lines.  I assume that I would
need to comment out all those lines marked line B.

Now for the harder question.  It seems that the lines shell script sed's
the .signature file if it exists.  My knowledge of sed is truly limited, and
in reading pnews AFTER the line B lines, it also does some sed'ing with the
.signature file.  I obviously don't want to wind up with two .signatures at
the bottom of each post - do I comment out the sed'ing in pnews?

Thanks,

jerry
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Jerry Heyman                         e-mail   : jerry@austin.ibm.com
IBM AWSD AIX Dev Env Tools MS 9631    "Software is the difference between
Austin, TX  78758                        hardware and reality"
*** All opinions expressed are exactly that - my opinions and NOT IBM's
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