Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!killer!jolnet!jhereg!mark 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 Lines: 31 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. -- Mark H. Colburn mark@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG ..!ihnp4!chinet!jhereg!mark