Unix mail files.

[Christopher R Volpe]

In article <1163:May2719:09:5690 at stealth.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>
>Yep, exactly right. You'll also note that if a line in the text of a
>message starts with From and a space, the mailer adds a > to the line;
>that way mailreaders won't think that it starts a new message.
>
>To be precise, the separator is "\n\nFrom ".

The SunOS mail program that I use doesn't seem to use that as
a separator. I sent a message to myself containing "From me at here" in
the body of the message after two carriage returns, and indeed the ">"
was automatically inserted, but I directly edited my spool file 
and removed the ">". When I invoked "mail" to read it, It didn't
confuse the line in the text with the start of a new message,
even though the ">" was no longer there. Could there be some
control characters inserted somewhere?

Chris Volpe
G.E. Corporate Research and Development
VOLPECR at CRD.GE.COM