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Subject: Multi line commands
From: "John P. Rouillard" <rouilj @ cs . umb . edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 13:38:48 -0400 (EDT)
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In message <9404281258.AA08255@biome.bio.ns.ca>, Bill Silvert writes:
> A quick look at the documentation doesn't tell me how to send commands
> that extend over several lines.
> 
> One of my list owners is trying to send messages like:
> 
> approve PASSWORD list user@address.domain (firstname lastname)
> 
> from a system that forcibly wraps lines, so that commands over about 76
> characters long get broken in two.  Is there a way around this?

The newest version (1.90b2/1.90) supports splitting commands across
lines. I had to do it for a client that runs QuickMail (blecherous
package if there ever was one).

>From the README:

        Command lines can be continued by using a \
		at the end of the line.


				-- John
John Rouillard

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