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Re: suggested changes to zwrite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Wed Nov 1 10:44:04 1989
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 89 10:43:22 -0500
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>, athena-ws@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Dan Geer's message of Wed, 01 Nov 89 10:16:41 EST,
> From: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 89 10:16:41 EST
> i'd agree, and further suggest that whenever zwrite gets
> its input from a pipe that the ``.'' character be treated
> as a normal (non-special) character.
This has been the case for some time (if it's not from a terminal, the
input is treated literally, except for tab expansion; see the man page).
John
