Re: (no subject)
Re: (no subject)
- Subject: Re: (no subject)
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:25:45 -0800
On 11/26/00 2:09 PM, "Hellum Timothy" <email@hidden> wrote:
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That script submitted by Mark looked interesting, but when I copy-pasted
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it into SE, I got an error at the comma in the following line:
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<snip>
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end repeat
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display dialog "The binary representation of \"" & theText & , (<--
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right here)
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"\" is \"" & binString & "\""
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end if
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<end snip>
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Why would that happen?
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For some reason, some people have started to post scripts here using commas
to represent the continuation character (made by option-L), which gets
mangled by server, as does SE's soft-wrapping if you simply leave it out.
Please - would anyone doing so - or using any other "homemade"
representation - please _say so_? You can hardly expect others to
understand.
(I suppose it's futile to expect that in the year 2010, the last diehards
will have finally given up Emailer, and everyone will have fast-speed
internet, so we can finally either allow HTML or everyone will also have
format=flowed email option, and soft-wrapping can be effected in email by
everyone. On mailing lists where everyone has one or the other of these,
scripts come over so much better and more easily. Never mind, please don't
start flaming. I'll drop it.)
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Paul Berkowitz