> You missed my point, which should have been apparent given the rest of
> my previous message.  My proposal was simply to make mail.local escape
> all lines that match the regexp "^From ", regardless of the contents
> of the previous line.  I believe the increased robustness is worth a
> few extra '>' characters.
I fully agree with this opinion.

Now is there a nicer way than this of implementing it ? 
(Untested because I don't think it looks pretty, there must be 
a cleaner way.)
Cheerio
	Andrew

--- ../mail.local/mail.local.c	Sat Oct 14 02:05:27 1995
+++ mail.local.c	Wed Mar  5 17:06:38 1997
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 {
 	FILE *fp;
 	time_t tval;
-	int fd, eline;
+	int fd;
 	char *tn, line[2048];
 
 	tn = strdup(_PATH_LOCTMP);
@@ -138,14 +138,9 @@
 	(void)fprintf(fp, "From %s %s", from, ctime(&tval));
 
 	line[0] = '\0';
-	for (eline = 1; fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin);) {
-		if (line[0] == '\n')
-			eline = 1;
-		else {
-			if (eline && line[0] == 'F' && !bcmp(line, "From ", 5))
-				(void)putc('>', fp);
-			eline = 0;
-		}
+	for (;fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin);) {
+		if (line[0] == 'F' && !bcmp(line, "From ", 5))
+			(void)putc('>', fp);
 		(void)fprintf(fp, "%s", line);
 		if (ferror(fp))
 			break;

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