This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
Re: 1st post and general query
Article: 7877 of alt.hackers From: Foo@bar.org Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: 1st post and general query Date: 25 May 1995 12:29:16 -0400 Organization: The Connection 201-435-4000, 212-376-5141 Lines: 34 Sender: jbailin@cnct.com Approved: mmm hmmmm Message-ID: 3q2b8s$9a9@earth.cnct.com NNTP-Posting-Host: cnct.com Status: RO
Earlier today I wrote: >One question to any and all; I believe my system software will end up >appending a "Sender:" header field in this message. Any clues as to who >is doing this, and how I might turn it off? Well, seemingly that didn't happen, and presumably because I didn't include a specious "From:" field. If indeed the above appending occurs this time, then I restate my query. And if it doesn't, I'm *completely* in the dark and everyone should ignore me. Well, you've always got that option, regardless :-) And that means, oh no, another ObPleaseDontLaughAtThisHack: It's been a decade since I've done any programming, and I never knew anything about UNIX anyway. But I captured an .html file that I wanted to convert to a text file in ms-word for windows. My problem was that each line of text was full of trailing spaces, random in number it seemed, which made it impossible to set up the text in columns. Solution (yes I know UNIX must have some simple utility or text editor which would do this, but remember I said I don't know nuthin' about Unix): Start my comm program, Procomm (with modem echo turned on), and turn on "capture to file" feature. Then send the file which I want to doctor with the "play" feature (something which simply sends a file out the comm port). Echoed text is captured to a new file with, but trailing spaces are stripped out! Bass awkwards, I know, but it worked. John