Re: Trailing * on flag line?

At 01:26 AM 3/14/99 +0100, Rejo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Someone i know has a procmailrc with recipes that start with:
>
> :0: *
> [...]
>
> Does anyone know if this * is there for a reason? Or is it put there by
> mistake but it doesn't hurt?
I believe this will result in using a lockfile named '*'.  (Flags go
before the second ':').  Whether that hurts depends on whether something
requires a lockfile with a different name.

Cheers,
Stan