On 24 Dec 2019, Michael Dukelsky said the following...
 
 MD>  DR> I'm thinking a script that will take the Desc line, and create
 MD>  DR> multiple LDesc lines within the tic file before it gets processed
 MD>  DR> would be the best way to work around this...
 MD> 
 MD> Maybe it is possible to ask the sysop who hatches files with a long Desc
 MD> line to hatch with short Ldesk lines instead of it?

It might be possible, but this gave me an excuse to work on my bash
scripting... ;)

Now to see if it works on the production system. Do you know if the tic file
needs to have the Desc line, or can it just have multiple LDesc lines?

Here's what I've got for a script:

#!/bin/bash

ticlength=""

cd ~/mystic/echomail/in/

for filename in ~/mystic/echomail/in/*.tic; do
  [ -e "$filename" ] || continue
  ticlength=`cat "$filename" | grep "^Desc " | wc -c`
  if [ $ticlength -gt 45 ]
    then
    sed -i 's/^Desc/LDesc/g' $filename
    fmt -w 45 -p LDesc $filename > test.tic
    cp test.tic $filename
    rm test.tic
  fi
done


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