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From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Escaping '@' in Elm won't work on my UNIX-PC
Summary: Until 2.2 is out, use a different line kill character
Keywords: elm unix-pc 7300 3b1 escape
Message-ID: <53@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 89 17:17:35 GMT
References: <173@cmpfen.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
Lines: 22

In article <173@cmpfen.UUCP> bob@cmpfen.UUCP (Bob Breum) writes:
:Now that I finally got my UNIX-PC upgraded to the 3.5 system software which
:supports flexnames, I have installed elm 2.1.  But when I attempt to compose
:outgoing mail, I run into a problem at the To: prompt.  I want to enter
:
:    To: user@foobar
:
:but it insists on interpreting the '@' as a line kill character, even though
:I have escaped it with a backslash.  Can anyone help me with this?

This is one of the things that is changed in 2.2, but until 2.2 is released
the only work around is to use a different line kill character.

May I suggest control/u, as alot of systems use that by default
anyway.


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