Hi steffen, > It's all true what you say, but fetchmail set that standard
No it didn't. libc's rexec(3) parsed .netrc far before fetchmail was created. GNU inetutils for ftp(1) ditto. > Yes. But no: also because it is explicitly documented as > > · As a non-portable extension some widely-used programs support > shell-style comments: if an input line starts, after any amount > of white‐space, with a number sign ‘#’, then the rest of the line > is ignored. It's not an extension. It fails to parse a valid .netrc. Linefeed isn't special in the token-separating; it's the same as a space, tab, or comma. It's a non-portable incompatibility. Perhaps the documentation should state that instead? Cheers, Ralph. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j __________________________________ [email protected]
