Ted,
Your suggestion using the two LFs to determine where my message body begins
worked.
Here is the code I used in PASCAL.  I concatenated the LFs using the
STRMOVE.
Thanks....

    CONST
      INPUT_MAX = 1920;
      lf                 = CHR(10);

    VAR
      loop_control   : shortint;
      lf_pos         : shortint;
      lf_lf          : STRING[2];
      lf_lf_pos      : shortint;

     PROCEDURE readx;
       INTRINSIC;

    BEGIN
      email_message := ' ';
      lf_lf         := '  ';

      FOR loop_control := 1 TO INPUT_MAX DO
          stdin_record[loop_control] := ' ';

      readx(stdin_record,INPUT_MAX);
      STRMOVE(INPUT_MAX,stdin_record,1,email_message,1);
      email_message  := STRRTRIM(email_message);
      lf_pos         := STRPOS(email_message,lf);
      WRITELN('lf_pos ', lf_pos);
      STRMOVE(1,lf,1,lf_lf,1);
      STRMOVE(1,lf,1,lf_lf,2);
      lf_lf_pos      := STRPOS(email_message,lf_lf);
      WRITELN('lf_lf_pos ', lf_lf_pos);
      lf_lf_pos      := STRPOS(email_message,'KEN BORN');
      WRITELN('MESSAGE POS', lf_lf_pos);
      WRITELN(email_message);
    END;

The results are as follows:

lf_pos           55
lf_lf_pos          738
MESSAGE POS         740




-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Ashton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 10:06 AM
To: Born, Ken
Subject: Re: Sendmail --> detemining where header ends and message
begins


Ken,
  I see two options.  First, use strpos to find to LFs next to each
other--bytestream file lines terminate with LFs (ASCII 10) rather than CRs.
Second, open the file with HPFOPEN's item 77 set to 0 (this is a somewhat
tentative answer--I've played with this a bit, but not extensively).  This
mode
does record-based emulation for bytestream files.  That way, you can read
the
lines one at a time.

HTH,
Ted
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