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|    Maurice Kinal to All    |
|    preliminary ftn quoting thingy    |
|    09 Aug 11 22:29:52    |
   
   Hey All!   
      
   Just for fun here is an idea from the commandline to facillitate   
   quoting messages;   
      
    ----- ye ol gpm cut `n paste starts -----   
      
   fmt -s -w 67 quote.text | sed "s/^/${QUOTE_INITIALS}/g"   
    MK> here is a really long line that will be used for a test quoting   
    MK> thingy to reformat to a 72 character line length with the first   
    MK> initials of the quotee tacked in front of each line.   
    MK>   
    MK> here is another really long line that will be used for a test   
    MK> quoting thingy to reformat to a 72 character line length with   
    MK> the first initials of the quotee tacked in front of each line.   
      
    ----- ye ol gpm cut `n paste ends -----   
      
   Seems to work although quote.text will need to be replaced with a   
   temp file where the quoted part of the message is dumped to as well   
   as the proper input for ${QUOTE_INITIALS}. I just used my initials   
   and a created quote.text where each line was unbounded width-wise   
   with a blank line between them to test the idea.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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