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From: mark@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Poll on shar formats
Message-ID: <249@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG>
Date: 3 Jun 88 12:38:58 GMT
References: <868@fig.bbn.com>
Reply-To: mark@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Organization: House Jhereg, Streamwood, IL
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In article <868@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>The shar stuff I just released only puts out the leading 'X' when
>the first character is a non-alphabetic [...]  
>
What is going to happen if one of the lines in the shar files happens
to start with X. in the text?  For a contrived example:

X.TH ROUTE 8l
X.SH NAME
route \- X.400 Nameserver router
X.SH SYNOPSIS
X.B route
X.400-host	<------ This line should be "X.400-host, not ".400-host"
X.SH DESCRIPTION

I assume that shar would detect this and make it:

X.TH ROUTE 8l
X.SH NAME
route \- X.400 Nameserver router
X.SH SYNOPSIS
X.B route
XX.400-host
X.SH DESCRIPTION

By the way, it took me a bit to come up with something that would fit
into the category, it is not all that common a sequence.

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Mark H. Colburn           mark@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG
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