Aye aye mark! Fit like?
 In a message of 26 Oct 96 mark lewis wrote to me:

 LK>> | There shall be one tear line in a message. It is placed
 LK>> | immediately before the origin line, following all user
 LK>> | entered information
 ml> that should read "There MAY be" ... there is also no way
to determine
 ml> if a tearline is manually entered by the user or if it is, in fact, a
 ml> tearline as used for our purposes...

If it was indeed "MAYBE" then there would be little point in
including it in the spec. We either opt to retain it, making it REQUIRED or
loose it all together

 ml> this seems to be ok but you still have not told how to tell if it is
 ml> user entered or not... again, it is not needed... if it was =necessary=

In essence treat the tearline as part of the origin. Assuming my proposal
the end of user text would be marked by:

(1:2/3.4{at}fidonet)

(EL = end of line, any of the CR NL combos)

3 dashes anywhere else would simply be user text.

 ml> then you would never get this message -=;-)

True ;) I'm not worried either way for a tear line...

-- Lee Kindness
 lkindness{at}csl.co.uk http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/students/cs_yr94/lk

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