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Article #557Re: Why can't nn split digests in folders or articles?
From: Kurt Swanson
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 09:25
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 09:25
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sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman) writes: >In <1993Jan4.101448.11870@lth.se> kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson) writes: >>It's somewhat annoying, that a normally posted digest, which nn can >>split, cannot be split after it has been saved into a folder. Is >>there any strong reason for this? >The beginning of each new message may look like a new letter to the mail >system (which might be used later to read the file). So that no other >folder reading program is confused by the digest headers, the digest headers >are damanged. (Go look). You can undamage them if you wish and see what >happens, but this is the reason. >You will find that sometime like this happens if you send mail that >contains lines in the message part that could be confused as a mail >header. The mail system will damage those lines too so that the >next mail program won't be confused. This "damage" is merely a "~" character placed in front of each important header. Our friendly nn program ought to be able to recognize and deal with this... -- Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science, Lunds universitet. Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se -- Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science, Lunds universitet. Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!news.lth.se!kurt From: kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson) Subject: Re: Why can't nn split digests in folders or articles? Message-ID: <1993Jan5.092547.3307@lth.se> Sender: news@lth.se Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden References: <1993Jan4.101448.11870@lth.se> <sherman.726197413@foster> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 09:25:47 GMT Lines: 25