On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:19 am, you wrote:
> Thanks, Mark. I am familiar with regular expressions from years ago when I
> ran an SCO 4.2-based BBS (remember BBSes?). I'm getting back into *nix with
> Linux, and I'm amazed at the number of things I've forgotten. Concise,
> clear explanations like yours are very helpful.
>
> -Paul "He can be taught!" Schwebel
>
> --- Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:20:33 -0800 (PST)
> >
> > Paul Schwebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > Could you explain what "regex's in the SMTP'S configuration file" is?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -Paul "He can be taught!" Schwebel
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> > regex is a geek-speak for regular expression. what it referes to is a
> > search function used in Unix/PERL/C/C++ and other high level languages,
> > both interpreted and compiled to find alpha-numeric string patterns.
> > since i'm
>
> <snip>
>
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Of course his explanation was concise and clear! He doesn't work for 
Microshaft! Nice for a change, eh?

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