Tom -- ...and then Thomas Baker said... % % On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:51:49AM -0500, David T-G wrote: ... % > % > Ahhh... That's a good point. The % is under DOS/Win what the $ is under % > a *NIX shell; you write a loop, for instance, as % % DOS/Win, eh? Well,that would explain why I couldn't find % any documentation... :-)
*grin* % ... % > for %%i in ... % > % > to protect it. Even though I *think* you've said that this is all within % > mutt and not in a pipeline (which I would almost bet a twinkie would get % > mucked up), you still might be experiencing some of these problems. % % Well, I'm not sure that protecting a parameter with another % % (the DOS/Win equivalent of "\$"?) is really what's happening Right. ... % will generate headers such as: % % From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 7 13:59:03 2002 ... % % My Cygwin/Mutt apparently needs that prepended "%" because % if I generate a From-line without it -- eg, for the mbox % that Procmail wrote which had no From-lines at all -- Mutt % will not recognize that line as a message delimiter. So "%" % would seem to be not just a DOS/Win thing, but a Mutt thing?? Hmmm... That's very odd; mutt definitely doesn't care about % in an mbox file and I don't think that it's legal in the mbox filespec. But it certainly does seem to be after any pipelines. % ... % > and such, you may find better expando answers on the cygwin list. % > Wouldn't hurt to try. % % I have already moved a related question to that list, % but I'm still not clear on whether this "%" business is % Cygwin-specific?? It almost certainly isn't cygwin-specific, but if it is a DOS/Win thing then they're probably the most likely place to find answers or at least valid pointers. While the %-in-mbox-file thing does make it a bit confusing, that certainly isn't a mutt or mbox thing and so you might ask, especially since a %% is apparently becoming a % along the way. % % Thanks, % Tom HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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