From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 31 20:50:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA23009 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA22996 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA02681; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:19:55 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708010349.NAA02681@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: date(1) In-Reply-To: <199708010240.DAA03883@awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Aug 1, 97 03:40:05 am" To: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:19:54 +0930 (CST) Cc: grog@lemis.com, brian@awfulhak.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Somers stands accused of saying: > [.....] > > > The first is just wrong, and the second is a mis-quote. I originally > > > said: > > > > > >> More like: > > >> > > >>>> cc[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]]mm[.ss]] > > Arrrghhhhhh ! Your mailer is gobbling the "open square brace" > characters ! That is *NOT* what I posted. There are two opening > brackets prior to the ``cc'' that something's eating. Greg is almost certainly using supercite inside emacs. Bad boy! > I'm sure we can all agree that this means the above usage (with the > two wandering brackets included) is correct ? Yes. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[