[11412] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6G: blanche
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MIT Ballroom Dance Club)
Mon Nov 22 12:15:16 1993
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 12:15:02 EST
From: MIT Ballroom Dance Club <bdclub@MIT.EDU>
System name: primavera
Type and version: KN02ca 7.6G (1 update(s) to same version)
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What were you trying to do?
Create a mailing list with blanche -f
What's wrong:
If a local user (one on Athena) is added with the login name only,
and if there are any upper case letters in the name (e.g., Jchatter
instead of jchatter), then the name is treated as a STRING instead
of as a USER. This would be a minor problem if the address still
worked, but it doesn't! If I do an expn on the resulting list,
it cannot find the STRING since it is apparently trying to interpret
it as a complete address rather than as a local USER.
What should have happened:
Blanche's treatment of entries as being USER or STRING should not be
case sensitive (per the man page). If it is, it should at least
work transparently to the user (i.e., I don't care if it wants
to treat it as a STRING, as long as it can find the address either way.
As it is now, things are very inconsistent: The command 'expn Jchatter'
will correctly expand to the local user even though there are upper-
case characters, but if I add it to the list that way, it will not!
The documentation for blanche also says that entries are treated
as STRINGs only if they contain punctuation.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
blanche man page.
