Subject: bug report in Pine 3.96

From: "Peter G. Sutherland, Dean of Science" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:19:29 -0500 (EST)

I can save messages to a folder with a name like A&B but Pine won't accept
the '&' as part of a folder name in the header-option "Fcc".

Peter

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 21 Jan 1998 21:37:46 +0100

> Peter G Sutherland, Dean of Science writes:

Hello, Peter G Sutherland, Dean of Science,

PGSDoS> I can save messages to a folder with a name like A&B but Pine
PGSDoS> won't accept the '&' as part of a folder name in the
PGSDoS> header-option "Fcc".

Try quotes. Don't use special characters in pathnames. Never.

Your signature is too long, and lacks sigdashes "-- ".

Robin

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