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From: rwl@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Ray Lubinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Poll on shar formats
Message-ID: <2450@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Date: 7 Jun 88 09:33:04 GMT
References: <868@fig.bbn.com> <1494@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: U.Va. CS in Charlottesville VA
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In article <1494@microsoft.UUCP>, danno@microsoft.UUCP (Daniel A. Norton) writes:
> OK, so the "X" goes before any line with a ".".  I'm sure that the "X"
> must also precede any line that already had an "X".  Are there other
> characters in the first position that systems in the net will be
> sensitive to?

Well, with the BSD mail program, '~' (tilde) in the first column makes the
line a mail command (like "~s blah" to set the subject line).

How's about putting an 'X' in front of every line which begins with a
non-alphanumeric, non-space character (other than 'X'),
i.e. [^a-zA-Z0-9 \t\n]?

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