TOP second argument

Steve Dorner <sdorner@qualcomm.com> Fri, 03 June 1994 21:49 UTC

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From: Steve Dorner <sdorner@qualcomm.com>
Subject: TOP second argument

Another unclear area in the spec is whether:

TOP 1 0

is an error or a valid way to get just the headers of a message.

I don't care one way or the other, since I was long ago forced to use TOP 1
1 because of servers who assumed that 0 was invalid.

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