Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ucscc.ucsc.edu!gorn!filbo From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: Annoying misfeature? Message-ID: <42.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> Date: 29 Sep 89 05:00:47 GMT References: <3166@ur-cc.UUCP> Organization: R Pentomino Lines: 17 X-Claimer: I >am< R Pentomino! In article <3166@ur-cc.UUCP> Mark Sirota writes: >All right, let's get philosophical here. Some of us, perhaps many of us, no >longer give a damn about UCB Mail, and would happily get rid of these >braindead behaviors for backwards compatibility. I want a mailer that works >right, not one that works similarly to another braindead mailer. I can't rightly say whether I've >ever< used UCB Mail, but I would strenuously object if "d11" stopped working. Kludge solution: after all parsing, if it turns out NOT to be an internal command (build-in or cmd), go back and reparse it with break-at-digit turned off. Or just keep a flag whether a break-at-digit was done during parse; when it's determined to be an external command, shove together the first two words if that flag is set. Bela Lubkin * * filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us CIS: 73047,1112 @ * * ...ucbvax!ucscc!gorn!filbo ^^^ REALLY slow [months] R Pentomino * Filbo @ Pyrzqxgl (408) 476-4633 & XBBS (408) 476-4945