From: Kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: RE : [Coder-Com] Fwd: [Cservice] accessability enquiry
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:29:29 -0500
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> This basically means you end up having to special case this (is there a
> colon? Then theres no part message. Is there no colon? Then theres a part
> message) which seems to be nothing but extra work.
Huh? You're confused. The RFC says that if there's a :, then all text following the colon, even field separators (white space), is part of the final argument. In other words, : is a sentinel for the last argument in a command.
> And theres exactly the same `issue' for clients rejoining during a split -
> I forget which way around it is but a normal client join and a netsplit
> join are different - one is : prefixed, the other is not.
*sigh* not too surprising--they're generated by different routines in the source. I hope to be able to consolidate these in the future. -- Kevin L. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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