On 2015-08-31 15:41:01 -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > From the terminal point of view, the shell is just like another > > > process. > > > > Just to make it clear: I didn't write that, even though you've made it > > appear that I did by putting ">" in front of it. > > For the record, lines starting with From are often escaped with > to > avoid issues with mbox. So Vincent didn't purposefully prepend > to > that.
Actually I didn't even put a ">" (for instance, it doesn't appear in the mail copy I received in Bcc). That's Debian's mailing-list software that did. In the Bcc copy: | From the terminal point of view, the shell is just like another | process. In the copy from debian-user: | >From the terminal point of view, the shell is just like another | process. That's rather stupid because until the mail is stored in a mbox mailbox (for users who use this), the ">" is not useful at all. Note also that this "From" escaping differs from the using quoting, which has a space after ">". -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
