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From: haug@almira.uucp (Brian R Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Need help with L.sys entry
Summary: use \020
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.005926.10052@almira.uucp>
Date: 17 Oct 90 00:59:26 GMT
References: <64583@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <546@cypress.UUCP>
Reply-To: haug@Columbia.NCR.COM (Brian Haug)
Organization: Personal machine, Columbia, SC
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In article <546@cypress.UUCP> rbv@cypress.UUCP (Roger Vanderveen) writes:
>In article <64583@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) writes:
[ problem with the send-expect sequence pairs in L.sys file which must
contain a space]
>Doesn't look too tough.  How about:
>	Local>> connect\ alamo login: uucp word: uucp_password
>The \ quotes the space so that 'connect alamo' is one string.  Then just wait
>for 'login:'.

I had to deal with this recently, I don't know of any formal documentation.
After experimenting with quoting using \, which didn't work, enclosing the
string in double quotes ("), which didn't work, I hit upon a solution which
I believe to be portable (at least for ASCII machines) which is to use the
octal escape sequence \020 which is the code for a space.

And hopefully inews is happy about quoted text.