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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>
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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.

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