ietf-nntp Multiple Wildmat parameters

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Jul 18 16:09:38 PDT 2000


Peter Mee writes:

> In section 4 of the draft, the character set paragraph indicates:

>             characters. Keywords and arguments MUST be each separated by
>             one or more US-ASCII SPACE or US-ASCII TAB characters.

> Multiple Wildmat arguements are currently separated by commas.  Is the
> comma or the above description an error?

Multiple wildmat patterns are not multiple arguments.  A comma-separated
wildmat expression composed of any number of patterns is a single argument
to the command.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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