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From: "Frank J. Wancho" 
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Subject: Message Encapsulation
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 19:30:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 11 19:30:24 1985
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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