Hi there!
On 13 Dec 99, at 14:31, Tony AT Mendina wrote
about "Password Truncation on Bat! install":
> I know I'm a little behind the times as far as version numbers go,
> but this problem has been pretty consistent in every version I've
> used, so I bet it hasn't been fixed yet.
>
> My mail system at work *requires* a percent sign, %, in my password.
> This cannot be changed. Whenever I upgrade or reinstall the Bat, the
> percent sign and the characters that follow it are removed. This is a
> serious annoyance: it sometimes takes me a while to notice that my
> mail is not being checked, especially if, as is usual, I reinstalled
> the Bat after a windows crash, when stress distracts me from
> remembering the password bug.
Well, try "escaping" the percent sign with a backslash symbol.
Under some circumstances, it works. I never tested this,
although, just putting it "over my head":-))
That is, if you password is something like DFGFFGH%vcfgfgfg,
specify it in TB as DFGFFGH\%vcfgfgfg
HTH;-)
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SY, Alex
(St.Petersburg, Russia)
http://mph.phys.spbu.ru/~akiselev
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PGP public keys on keyservers:
0xA2194BF9 (RSA); 0x214135A2 (DH/DSS)
fingerprints:
F222 4AEF EC9F 5FA6 7515 910A 2429 9CB1 (RSA)
A677 81C9 48CF 16D1 B589 9D33 E7D5 675F 2141 35A2 (DH/DSS)
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