Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA From: "Frank J. Wancho"Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Message Encapsulation Message-ID: <8252@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 19:30:24 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8252 Posted: Mon Feb 11 19:30:24 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:59:16 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 18 The digests originating from Rutgers use a program to generate them. The program produces a line of 70 hyphens as the Topic Separator, and a line of 30 dashes as the Message Separator. Each Separator includes a blank line before and after the line of hyphens. As it processes each message to be encapsulated, it removes any trailing lines of hyphens. BABYL's UnDigestify command takes the first occurrance of a line of 65 to 85 hyphens as the Topic Separator and automatically flushes any immediately preceding blank lines. The remainder of the message is assumed to be a collection of one or more encapsulated messages separated by a line of 27 to 33 hyphens. Blank lines following the separator are also removed in the process. Other trailing blank lines that occurred before the Message Separator in the resulting messages are discarded as an inherent part of the normal BABYL message processing. --Frank