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From: jw@sics.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Sun sendmail DOES set $w macro to hostname
Message-ID: <1313@sics.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 18:47:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: sics.1313
Posted: Wed Jun  3 18:47:55 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jun-87 10:26:25 EDT
References: <1301@sics.UUCP> <1311@sics.UUCP>
Reply-To: jw@sics.UUCP (Johan Widen)
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Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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In article <1311@sics.UUCP> jw@sics.UUCP (Johan Widen) writes:
>I was fooled by a smaller bug in sendmail: sendmail on Sun when run in test
>mode
>	sendmail -bt
>    or
>	sendmail -bt -Cxxx.cf
>
>expands the w macro to the string "w" (if w has not been set explicitly). 

Just to set the record straight:

It has been pointed out to me that sendmail -bt prints

	"^A" "w"
not just
	"w"

This is supposed to be sendmails internal representation of $w (unexpanded).
I still think that this is a bug.
-- 
Johan Widen
Swedish Institute of Computer Science
PO Box 1263, S-163 13 SPANGA, SWEDEN
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