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Re: sharutils: typo in uuencode(1) manpage


From: Bruce Korb
Subject: Re: sharutils: typo in uuencode(1) manpage
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 22:33:38 -0700
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OK. My recollections of nroff/troff are over 40 years old now.

On 9/28/21 7:42 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 9/28/21 7:27 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
-insert a character when the six character sequence "\nFrom " is seen.
+insert a character when the six character sequence "\\nFrom " is seen.

Thanks for the fix.

Instead of "\\nFrom ", I suggest "\enFrom " as that better survives troff macro processing.





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