Re: Problems with nwreader and helldiver

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From: Kevin Houle
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 19:40

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larry@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US (Lawrence T. Hardiman) writes:

> DEFAULT /dir=w:\news
> 
> This statement had worked fine in plain vanilla Waffle 1.65. Using HellDiver
> I could not see any news. So, when all else fails, RTFM (Waffle's, that is).
> Although Tom Dell does not seem to explicitly state that the operand of the 
> /dir statement *must* be enclosed in double-quotes, the example provided 
> shows the operand in double quotes. After changing the statement to:
> 
> DEFAULT /dir="w:\news"
> 
> Note the enclosing double-quotes; HellDiver found the newsgroups OK.
> Maybe you have the same problem I encountered.

I write code that will recognize the parameter either with or without
quotes. Waffle seems to do the same as I use both forms and have no
problems. Maybe Helldiver is specifically coded to use a quoted string?

> We all understand BNF. Right? :-)

Um, no :)


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Kevin Houle     kjhoule@iowegia.uucp

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From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
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Subject: Re: Problems with nwreader and helldiver
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