Now, is this more like the old Eric we used to know and love, or what?
        Douglas
> But anyway, this is a  mainframe-thinking type of solution. Unix problems
> call  for unix  solutions. A  simple unix  solution is  to pipe  the mail
> message through  a simple yet powerful  filter which converts on  the fly
> and  creates a  mail  folder  with all  sentences  beginning with  "From"
> properly mangled to ">From" and the  "From" lines inserted. You can write
> this filter in a variety of simple yet powerful languages including C and
> perl. Now if  you combine this unix thinking with  the mainframe approach
> of using  specialized controllers  for specialized  tasks to  offload the
> central CPU, you arrive at the following algorithm:
>
> 1. Locate local unix student, preferably bored specimen, or specimen busy
>    reading usenet.
>
> 2. Open umbrella.
>
> 3. State  that big time mainframe  bigot XYZ asserted that  this can't be
>    done on unix in  less than 3 days of work because  there is no support
>    for an advanced file system  on unix and extensive application support
>    code needs to be engineered into  the program before the first line of
>    application code can ever get written.
>
> 4. Close umbrella when expostulations are over.
>
> 5. Come back 30 minutes later and collect program.
>
> :-)
>
>   Eric
>