From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: Dollar Signs Article-I.D.: watarts.1655 Posted: Thu Feb 3 17:37:31 1983 Received: Fri Feb 4 00:05:43 1983 Reply-To: geo@watarts (Geo Swan) References: bronze.445 watarts.1652 The original article titled "Dollar Signs" (bronze.445) asked whether the missing dollar signs in articles were the result of a bug in news or uucp. In my original response (watarts.1652) I contended that they were all the result of human error, as all the missing dollar signs I had seen were in the Title: lines of articles, where if the poster had incorrectly escaped the $[0-9] it would have been swallowed by the shell. I have received a couple of responses from people contending that dollar signs disappear from the body of articles too. On of my respondents cited tekchips.172 as an example. Yes, this article does have some places where dollar signs are obviously missing. However this article has also been formatted. Nroff would also try to interpret $[0-9]. I think I will still contend that articles with missing dollar signs are the result of human errors. I would be interested in hearing about any counter-examples....