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Re: MAKEDIG.ZIP now available.

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From: Roy M. Silvernail
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 00:37
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ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:

> I think you'll find it buried in either bnews or cnews code.  A suggestion
> is offered to keep things backward compatible, if that's even feasible.
> Since not everyone (either manually or in their software) tries to use
> "-- ", then parsing the string for "--" should be valid.  What about
> an either/or routine?

As of today, it will accept "--" or "-- " alone on a line.

> You're doomed, anyway, if someone uses pluses or "*", or ...

I'm not doomed... those folks just want to see the helpfile every time,
that's all.  ;-)

Of course, for them, I added the 'quit' command.
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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
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Subject: Re: MAKEDIG.ZIP now available.
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Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 18:37:04 CST
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