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Re: 2 questions on mh-format and scan

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From: Kannan Varadhan
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:42
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Thus spake kannan@oar.net (Kannan Varadhan)
>Question 1:  According to the manual, %{folder} is a valid component
>for scan listings, which gives me to understand that I should see some
>output for the following command:

After poring over the sources, I found out that scan.c, when calling
scan() will only pass the folder name, and hence set the %{folder}
component, if -header is specified.  The fix is to remove the check for
the hdrflag variable, both when scan'ing a packf'd file, and when given
a normal folder.

If the diffs are interesting, I can post them here.

>Question 2:  I am trying to coax a numeric argument to be left
>justified, but to no avail.

Someone pointed out that this was the default for printing out numeric
arguments, when I realised I had specified the question incompletely.  I
want to be able to left justify it in a fixed width field.  This
person's response was to use it as %04(num), but the leading zeroes are
yukky, even as a kluge.


Kannan
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