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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: % in path
Message-ID: <1991May10.010211.6081@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 10 May 91 01:02:11 GMT
References: <1991May4.023832.2999@mccc.edu> <1991May06.141547.19963@chinet.chi.il.us> <234BBH4@xds13.ferranti.com>
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <234BBH4@xds13.ferranti.com>,
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <1991May06.141547.19963@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> > Smail 2.5 doesn't understand the % as a routing operator
> 
> What I do is have lmail (which is a simple enough program, and easy to change)
> convert the % to an @ and feed it back through smail.

That's a good idea, and probably a lot simpler than what I did, which
was to make smail2.5 understand the % character directly.  (My patches
to smail2.5 were posted to alt.sources early in 1991, with Archive-name:
smail2.5/apbmje900117.  They are in unidiff format, so you will need
patch version 12u1, 12u2 or 12u3 to apply them.)

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
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