Reply to: RE>>question on APPROVE
On 4/26/96 5:42 PM Michael Satterwhite wrote:
>>>I don't have this problem (sorry John), but I have a problem when an
>>>e-mail address is long. the line doesn't wrap. but it seems that if
>>>the address is longer than about 50 characters, it just chops the end
>>>of.
>>For long approve lines, use the backslash "\".
>>Without it, you could be subscribing or unsubscribing yourself.
>Could you be a bit more specific about how you use the backslash? Does >it
become a continuation character?
Yes.
Example:
approve passwd subscribe very-long-listname-goes-here \
perhaps-very-long-email-address-goes-here
I've only "broken" the lines or done the continuation at a convenient
location, where a "space" normally appears in the command line.
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