ietf-nntp XPAT pat [pat] ?

Brian Kelly bkelly at sulaco.com
Tue Apr 22 03:13:23 PDT 1997


>XPAT was a quick hack added because I wanted to help out the XV (?)
>newsreader.
>	XPAT Subject - rich *alz
>Means the wildmat pattern "rich *alz"

It's also worth pointing out (for it's not in the doc', at least not the
September '96 nntpext.txt) that a range specified as a single hyphen as above 
seems to mean all articles in the group. At least that's the way INN appears
to interpret it.

Brian
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             windshield and "No Windshield"/"Get One" or "Just
             Checking" sign.

bkelly at sulaco.com



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