Subject: Dashed line before .signature

From: [email-masked] (William McBrine)
Date: 30 May 1994 03:15:07 GMT

Is there any way to make Pine add a '--' automatically when it reads in 
the .signature (as below)?

--
William McBrine
[email-masked]
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Charles Clark)
Date: 30 May 1994 05:33:30 GMT

>the .signature (as below)?

Make your .signature file be like
	--
	William McBrine
instead of just
	William McBrine

Now, if you are trying to use the same signature file for some other
program, say trn, that adds the -- automatically, you'll have to give
that up (use two different sig files).
-- 
cmclark                                                      DoD #1325
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	tax money spent on mutant constipated worms than on the Senate
	Judiciary Committee."  -- Dave Barry

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From: "Robert A. Hayden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 01:46:47 -0500 (CDT)

You can get a double-dash manually to your .signature, but that is silly 
if you have other programs that automatically add the dashes.

Sounds like an important .pinerc option, IMHO.

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Davis)
Date: 29 May 1994 23:32:13 -0700

In article <[email-masked]>,
Charles Clark <[email-masked]> wrote:
:[email-masked] (William McBrine) writes:
:
:>Is there any way to make Pine add a '--' automatically when it reads in 
:>the .signature (as below)?
:
:Make your .signature file be like
:	--
:	William McBrine
:instead of just
:	William McBrine
:
:Now, if you are trying to use the same signature file for some other
:program, say trn, that adds the -- automatically, you'll have to give
:that up (use two different sig files).

Just edit your .pinerc and set 

signature-file=.pinesig

(or whatever name you want) and make .pinesig your ordinary .signature
with a '--' line at the top.

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From: [email-masked] (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 08:49:06 GMT

[email-masked] (Charles Clark) writes:
| [email-masked] (William McBrine) writes:
| 
| >Is there any way to make Pine add a '--' automatically when it reads in 
| >the .signature (as below)?
| 
| Make your .signature file be like
| 	--
| 	William McBrine
| instead of just
| 	William McBrine
| 
| Now, if you are trying to use the same signature file for some other
| program, say trn, that adds the -- automatically, you'll have to give
| that up (use two different sig files).
| -- 
| cmclark                                                      DoD #1325

Please make sure it is "^-- $" as a regular expression, i.e. two
dashes and a space.   That is the convention for starting a signature.

Sridhar.

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From: [email-masked] (Greg Hilton)
Date: 31 May 1994 21:26:03 GMT

Sridhar Venkataraman ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Please make sure it is "^-- $" as a regular expression, i.e. two
: dashes and a space.   That is the convention for starting a signature.

: Sridhar.

Does anyone know where (and why) this convention originated?

   Thanks.

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