Herbert Xu: Re: showpartial in metamail package (2.7-31)

[Bennet Yee <bsy@cs.ucsd.edu>]

please see bug description & fix in attachmed msg.

-bsy
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• To: Bennet Yee <bsy@cs.ucsd.edu>
• Subject: Re: showpartial in metamail package (2.7-31)
• From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
• Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:02:29 +1000
• Message-id: <20000607170229.A23325@gondor.apana.org.au>
• In-reply-to: <200006070646.XAA21861@play.ucsd.edu>; from bsy@cs.ucsd.edu on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:46:03PM -0700
• References: <200006070646.XAA21861@play.ucsd.edu>

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:46:03PM -0700, Bennet Yee wrote:
> showpartial fails because modern tr has backslash escapes, and gnu tr
> generates an error message when it sees the lone trailing backslash.
> it's easy to fix:
> 
> # id=$(echo "$2" | tr -d \!\$\&\*\(\)\|\'\"\;\/\<\>\\ ) # orig
> id=$(echo "$2" | tr -d \!\$\&\*\(\)\|\'\"\;\/\<\>\\\\ ) # fix1 or
> # id=$(echo "$2" | tr -d '!$&*()|'\''";/<>\\' )		# fix2

I don't maintain metamail anymore.  Please contact
metamail@packages.debian.org.
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