How to get ">" symbol when referring to articles?

[Jerry Peek]

In article <1026 at hound.UUCP> pearse at hound.UUCP (S.PEARSE) writes:
> Is there an elegant way to get the ">" symbol before articles when
> referring to other people's postings? For example:
> 
> >This is an article posted by someone else
> >They always seem to have that symbol
> >at the far left.

The obvious way is to use Larry Wall's "rn" program.  It does this
automagically when you use the R command.

If you don't have or use rn, but you are using the "vi" editor to edit your
posting, you can do a filter-through with "sed", the stream editor.  Put your
cursor at the first line of the reply and type:

	!Gsed 's/^/> /'

(the !G won't appear on your screen).

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