On Feb 28 01:00 97, andrew clarke of 3:635/728.4{at}fidonet wrote:

 >> I found out it works if I remove the UUCP line from my Msged.cfg, but I 
 >> really like the you-type-the-address-and-I-handle-the-rest way of Msged 
 >> filling in the To-field and such.

 ac> The above works here irrespective of the UUCP setting.  The only 
 ac> difference is if I don't have a UUCP address configured in MSGED.CFG, 
 ac> the UUCP address defaults to 3:0/0 (I'm not sure if this is a good 
 ac> thing or not, but at least Msged doesn't fall over :-).

It defaults to 2:0/0 here but the kludge lines (I think INTL) say 0:0/0.
But this doesn't really solve my problem. :-)

 ac> I have `UUCP 3:50/40' in my MSGED.CFG.  As I said, it works for me; 
 ac> the "To:" line in the message text is not deleted. 
Nobody else has 
 ac> reported such a problem (yet), so I can only assume the bug is unique 
 ac> to your configuration - I suggest you post your MSGED.CFG.  :-)

I'll include my msged.cfg here. (I've cut out all of the comments) I use
the standard MSGED.EXE that comes with the Msged 4.1 distribution archive.

   ----- MSGED.CFG begins -----
Name "Frank Geerlings"   lastread 0
Name "Mirthe Geerlings"  lastread 1

Address 2:283/546.22
Address 50:222/201.22
Address 27:2331/403.22
Address 93:100/122
Address 2:283/540.22

Alias  areafix "AreaFix"                2:283/546  n 
"Secret :-)"
Alias  peter  "geerl{at}xs4all.nl"  UUCP
Alias  jesse  "jessevb{at}xs4all.nl"       UUCP       n  "Koeien"
Alias  Brechtje "bregjuh{at}dds.nl" UUCP       n  "Krentebol"

Outfile    +msged.txt,t
Lastread   lastread
Tosslog    +c:\mail2\squish\echotoss.log
Swappath   c:\
helpfile   msghelp.dat
;Userlist   c:\bink\fidouser.lst,(null)
Useroffset 0
Quote      _&>_ 
Right      79
QuoteRight 75
Tabsize    4

Template  template.msq
Nodepath  c:\mail\nodelist
Nodelist  fidonet nodex  sysop.ndx

Areafile squish c:\mail2\squish\echoarea.cfg
AlterFunc  ReplyQuote      Q
AlterFunc  ReplyOtherArea  QA
AlterFunc  ReplyFollow     QF
AlterFunc  ReplyExtra      QAF

Switch Seen-Bys On
Switch ShowNotes On
Switch RealMsgN On
Switch ShowTime On

ReadKey 0x000D AStart     ;  go to msg area started in (when
entering area).
ReadKey 0x0009 AStart     ;    go to msg area started in (when
entering area).
ReadKey 0x4F00 SLast      ;    go to last msg in msgbase.
ReadKey 0x4700 First      ;   go to first msg in msgbase.
ReadKey 0x0012 Rotate     ; ROT13 coding key
ReadKey 0x004E RepOth     ; 'N'
ReadKey 0x006E RepOth     ; 'n'
ReadKey 0x0051 Quote      ; 'Q'
ReadKey 0x0071 Quote      ; 'q'
ReadKey 0x0045 NewMsg     ; 'E'
ReadKey 0x0065 NewMsg     ; 'e'
ReadKey 0x004C List       ; 'L'
ReadKey 0x006C List       ; 'l'
ReadKey 0x5200 NewMsg     ; Insert
ReadKey 0x5300 Delete     ; Delete
ReadKey 0x2400 Shell      ; Alt+J

switch NetmailVia off

include scheme.002

Squish  mp   "Netmail"                 c:\mail2\messages\netmail
Squish  e    "Persoonlijke berichten"  c:\mail2\messages\personal PERSONAL
Squish  e    "Dubbele berichten"       c:\mail2\messages\dupes    DUPES
Fido    m    "Boze berichten"          c:\mail2\messages\bad      BAD_MSGS

Uucp      93:100/122.666
gate none
Origin The Santa Claus machine

readkey 0x000d astart      ;  go to msg area started in (when
entering area).
readkey 0x4f00 slast       ;    go to last msg in msgbase.
readkey 0x4700 first       ;   go to first msg in msgbase.

function 1 \0x23
function 2 _ _ _ O / _ _ C_U_T_ H_E_R_E_ _ _ _^m      O \\^m
function 3 ^mRegards,^mFrank.^m
function 4 ^mRegards,^mFrank.^m ^m
function 5 \0x11hello^m
function 6 \0x3200FRG_ASTRO^mAll^m
function 7
^m\0x48\0x4d\0x4d\0x4d^m\0x53\0x48\0x1e\0x4f\0x1e\0x2e\0x4f\0x19\0x
50\0x53\0x4f\0x19\0x50\0x53\0x47^m^m\0x48\0x48
   ----- MSGED.CFG ends -----

Met vriendelijke groet,
    Frank

--- Msged 4.10