Gate - simple mail->news->mail gateway suite (Part 1 or 1)

[Rich Salz]

In <1990Dec20.031515.6249 at supernet.haus.com> cluther at supernet.haus.com (Clay Luther) writes:
>I wrote this one afternoon to handle the gating of mail to news and news to
>mail.  It is written in script, and tries not to get too fancy.
...

Get the spool file into text, I assume?
>S=`cat $SFILE`

If your message has some text that looks like mail
From: your mother
for example, you'll get confused.  How about this, instead
	S=`sed /^$/q <$SFILE`

If I'm wrong about the original S=`` line, then never mind.
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