Charles Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:56:17 -0500:
> Ed Goforth wrote: > >> %BOS >> [*] >> Score: =-9999 >> From: aol.com >> %EOS >> >> will Pan's scorefile parser barf? Is this a legal rule? > > I haven't tested it, but it looks legal to me. > > Duncan's understandably confused about the wildcard usage: Pan attempts to > be compatable with slrn, which rolls its own regular expressions (in the > slang library) that supports wildmat. > >>>3. I see that Pan surrounds each rule with %BOS and %EOS. Does it place >>>any significance in these or are they just for readability. > > Yes, though not a major one. > %BOS and %EOS are used by the scorefile-tidying utility "cleanscore". Cool! Both those factors are new to me! =8^) Is cleanscore shipped as a separate package? I don't see it in the Gentoo tree. Is it part of slrn or something else? It doesn't appear to be part of the pan build (unless it is built with a separate make target or something). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
