> You have described here how the backslash character is used in C
source code. When you are using your email client program to compose an
email message you aren't working with C source code. You are working
with a compiled program. The compiled program is supposed to work as it
should regardless of whatever programming language was used for
producing the source code. The particular source code used will affect
the size of the compiled executable produced. Also it will affect the
speed at which the program runs; however, the program ought to work as
it should regardless.
> Sam Heywood
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Unix tends to use constructs from C source code even when not working with C
source code, and the Internet is native to Unix. Linux uses a backslash
followed by a space to indicate an embedded space within a file or directory
name, while such a file name in OS/2 would be put in quotes, without the
backslash. Other Unixes similar, I don't know yet. Note how 0x prefix to
indicate a hexadecimal number is used to indicate memory addresses in
hardware configuration files, this is C-style outside C source code. You
probably have to use such a number to enable DOSPPPD to find your modem; DOSPPPD
was ported from Unix. I could not send a message with a To: line like
To: "Samuel Heywood (Questioner of C constructs)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
because of the parentheses, maybe if I put a backslash before each parenthesis,
though I haven't tried it.
Are you getting a lot of spams for that chain-letter pyramid scheme, where you
are asked to send $5 to each of 5 postal address to order a report on how to
become a millionaire or how to send bulk email legally? It's such an epidemic,
I remember some of the names (such as Stone Evans and Amy Tran) from recent
previous such spams.
Your headers showed BasicLinux; I block-copy:
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