Re: ! and @

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From: Jeff Siegal
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1988 03:46

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In article <12821@brl-adm.ARPA> PKARP@IU.AI.SRI.COM (Peter Karp) writes:
>An optimal solution may be to parse "x!y@z" both ways and determine
>which of the hosts z and x are known by the local host.  This provides
>a way of disambiguating the syntax.

What if both hosts are known?  Also, if you're talking about a gateway
machine between two or more networks, the hostnames may well be
ambiguous.

Jeff Siegal

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