03 Dec 95 08:50, Paul Edwards wrote to Morten Br›rup:

 > BTW, I've thought of another corollary:

 > Why not have a:

 > MSGLEN   lines byte count>

 > Then, if you wished to skip a particular message completely (e.g.
 > unknown AREA), you could get to the NUL immediately instead of having to 
 > either search it, or use the MSGLEN to get to the start of the tearline 
 > and then search for it?

How about:

MSGLEN  

(Keeping in mind that the length and contents of SEEN-BY and PATH control
lines differ between systems)

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