Re: (no subject)
Re: (no subject)
- Subject: Re: (no subject)
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:57:03 -0800
On 11/26/00 2:33 PM, "JollyRoger" <email@hidden> wrote:
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on 11/26/2000 4:25 PM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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> For some reason, some people have started to post scripts here using commas
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> to represent the continuation character (made by option-L), which gets
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> mangled by server, as does SE's soft-wrapping if you simply leave it out.
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It's not that people are purposefully using commas in scripts - it's due to
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the way the list server processes special characters. The option-L
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character is changed to a comma when it is encountered in a message.
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, <-- see?
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Aha - I didn't know that. Sorry, everyone. For some reason, I thought I'd
only started seeing that recently.
Oh well, now that everyone knows ... (maybe you could remember to say
something when pasting option-Ls in?)
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Paul Berkowitz