Subject: Re: Foolish question.

From: Adam Shostack <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 14:43:22 -0400 (EDT)

Because thats the way things are.  :)

	Historically, you used to be able to create recipies that
didn't have * at the start of each recipie line.  Instead, the N in
:N: was a count of rules.  That lead to problems, so now, the ability
to do that is undocumented and discouraged.  But you can still do this:

:2:
From: adam@bwh
Subject: secrets man was not meant to know
! allusers

	Of course, you might decide to add a new rule later, and
forget to update the 2...

Adam

| 	In attempting to learn how to write new recipies, I've come to
| 	the realization that I can't seem to find (probably looked at it
| 	twice) the documentation on why every recipie has a "0" in the
| 	start of it.
| 
| 	Can someone point me at a reasonable place to find it in the docs?

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