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From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: . problem with main/news gateway (was: Re: make deletes files needed?!)
Date: 30 May 1996 13:39:03 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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Message-ID: <4ok8dn$so7@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <s1ae089e DOT 079 AT MAIL DOT TAIT DOT CO DOT NZ> <4ok87q$so7 AT rs18 DOT hrz DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Alexander Lehmann (lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de) wrote:
: Bill Currie (bill_currie AT MAIL DOT TAIT DOT CO DOT NZ) wrote:
: : On 30/5/96  9:43 am, Roland Exler <R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at> did thus say >>>
: : > ..PHONY: all lms clear
: :   ^
: : This is not your problem, but you have one too many dots.

: Having seen this twice recently, maybe this is a bug in the mail/news gateway
: and not in a certain newsreader.
: It seems that some people get duplicate dots when they are at the beginning
: of the line, while others (e.g. me) just see the correct single dot.
: Could maybe someone check the gateway software if it is correctly converting
: this. Since dots at the beginning of a line occur in Makefiles, this seems
: to cause some confusion.

The double dots are also present in the WWW mail archive, so it is probably
a problem with conversion from NNTP.


bye, Alexander

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