Re: Parsing package filenames (was: Re: New ftp method for dselect)

["brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca>]

>A mostly-compatable compromise would seem to be:
>
>[...]
>
>  Extension: May contain any printable chars.

If the extension can contain dashes, once again it could cause parsing
problems.  Eliminating dashes (or dots, for that matter) here would
again make it fit into a regular expression.

                                        Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@bnr.ca )

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