Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Subject: Re: Why are C news message-IDs so non-minimalist? Message-ID: Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Organization: Branch Technology, Ann Arbor, MI References: <1989Nov30.162609.9435@phri.nyu.edu> <5:CS3_@splut.conmicro.com> <1989Dec3.073310.18501@utzoo.uucp> <12928@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 89 14:47:28 GMT >>/* string of some valid message id characters */ >> >>char string[] = "!#$%^&*_+|-=~`{}'/?ABCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ1234567890"; > >This code, or something like it, is failing with older B News software >that doesn't like "/" in the Message-ID's, because it uses them to >construct filenames in /tmp. If you are currently doing this, please >consider changing your code for the sake of others' sanity. Anyone using mkid should remove '/' to accommodate this B news bug. Does anyone foresee any other problems with the character set (even though they are legal according to the rfcs)? -- Jon Zeeff Branch Technology