Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!novavax!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: questions Message-ID: <1989Jul30.093804.10825@twwells.com> Date: 30 Jul 89 09:38:04 GMT References: <4051@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <118337@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Distribution: usa Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lines: 19 In article mellon@zayante.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) writes: : Mr. Robert G. Christ, of Sun Microsystems, writes: : >Unless of course you're running the C Shell in which case : >you would sub \! for the ! because the ! is a special character. : : Nonsense, Mr. Christ. It should be intuitively obvious to the most : casual observer that all C-shell users handle their mail from GNU : Emacs, which doesn't require any silly escape characters. : : (': _MelloN_ :') Pretty please folks, can't we stop with the esoterica, in-jokes, and other attempts at humor? The people who will most benefit from this group are likely to be *very* confused by anything that isn't directly related to the questions they ask. --- Bill { uunet | novavax | ankh | sunvice } !twwells!bill bill@twwells.com