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From: jeh@simpact.com
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Can you create newsgroup comp.c++ ?? (yes!)
Message-ID: <854.25b316d7@simpact.com>
Date: 16 Jan 90 20:43:03 GMT
References: <651.25b1b667@mdcbbs.com>
Organization: Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
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In article <651.25b1b667@mdcbbs.com>, spain@mdcbbs.com writes:
> Does anyone know how to accept the newsgroup comp.c++ (?).  VMS will not allow
> you to create a directory with the character "+" in it...

Don't know which version you're running, but News 5.9C is smart 
enough to recognize VMS-illegal characters in newsgroup names and `escape'
them.  I tried 

	NEWS> create newsgroup comp.c++

and it failed, but only because the CLI parser expected another parameter
after the trailing "+".  This

	NEWS> create newsgroup "comp.c++"

worked.  The directory created was [...COMP.C_K_K].  (And if you're wondering,
an underscore in a newsgroup name becomes two underscores in the directory 
name.)  I note with satisfaction that when NEWS receives a checkgroups message 
and emits a command procedure (encased in a mail message), the newsgroup names
are enclosed in quotes.  

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
Chair, VMSnet [DECUS uucp] and Internals Working Groups, DECUS VAX Systems SIG 
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