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- Subject: Re: (no subject)
- From: Bryan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 22:14:16 -0500
- Organization: Apex Radiology
Actually, it is not by choice that the comma is entered instead of the
option-L.
It is automatically changed by either Netscape or the list server.
The same thing has happend to me. Here I'll show you:
I'm typing an option-L here => ,
Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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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
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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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Please - would anyone doing so - or using any other "homemade"
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representation - please _say so_? You can hardly expect others to
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understand.
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(I suppose it's futile to expect that in the year 2010, the last diehards
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will have finally given up Emailer, and everyone will have fast-speed
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internet, so we can finally either allow HTML or everyone will also have
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format=flowed email option, and soft-wrapping can be effected in email by
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everyone. On mailing lists where everyone has one or the other of these,
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scripts come over so much better and more easily. Never mind, please don't
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start flaming. I'll drop it.)
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Paul Berkowitz