Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!primerd!cunix7.prime.com!aardvark From: aardvark@cunix7.prime.com (Don Koch) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: C News milestone Message-ID: <1990Nov29.181934@cunix7.prime.com> Date: 29 Nov 90 23:19:34 GMT References: <1990Nov13.215847.23684@zoo.toronto.edu> <=8:6F68@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Nov19.231927@cunix7.prime.com> <92373K5@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: aardvark@cunix7.prime.com (Don Koch) Organization: Prime Computer, Inc. Lines: 43 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunix7 In article <92373K5@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: |> In article <1990Nov19.231927@cunix7.prime.com> aardvark@cunix7.prime.com (Don Koch) writes: |> > Which causes some 'notes' to sometimes gag on the article ID. |> |> What characters does "notes" gag on? I've already trimmed my article ID |> to allow for old-fashioned B news sites that create file names in tmp based |> on the ID (L. is a great file name :->), so a few more |> would be no problem. |> -- |> Peter da Silva. `-_-' |> +1 713 274 5180. 'U` |> peter@ferranti.com Notes looks for a number, in which your given example has none. It doesn't generate a file name from it, it just stores the number in its internal database. Besides, L. is a lousy filename for a Unix based system: the slash isn't allowed. It's also a lousy article ID with the L. hanging off the front of it. (I won't mention the other disallowed characters due to various RFCs since that's been hashed over several times already. Too bad worm-cans don't have consumer warning labels on them. :-)) Peter, you've got to learn to pick better examples :-). I'll grant that notes isn't great at handling all article IDs. It can handle C News ID, though. -- Don Koch aardvark@primerd.prime.com These are only my opinions and not necessarily those of my employer. "alt - the Fox TV of Netnews." -me