rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) (12/26/88)
In article <179@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes: > What is the proper procedure for sending mail using the user@host > syntax and Elm 2.1 ? WHen entering the information on the "To:" > line I can't seem to delimit the "@" sign. It keeps clearing the > current line evening though I am preceeding it with the "backslash". > This of course works fine for sending user@host stuff on mail & mailx. > Thanks. The routines that solicit user input have just been changed in ELM 2.2 to allow backslash to cause a literal interpretation of characters that would otherwise have special meaning, i.e. your backspace and linekill characters (if they are printing characters). I'm sorry for this situatation where many of you are having difficulties with ELM 2.1 but we really only have time to fix them in ELM 2.2. -- Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell UNIX/C Reusable Code Library Email: ...![backbone]!pacbell!pbhyf!rob OR rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM Office: (415) 823-2417 Room 4E750A, San Ramon Valley Administrative Center Residence: (415) 827-4301 R Bar JB, Concord, California