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From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: . problem with main/news gateway (was: Re: make deletes files needed?!)
Date: 30 May 1996 13:35:54 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Bill Currie (bill_currie AT MAIL DOT TAIT DOT CO DOT NZ) wrote:
: On 30/5/96  9:43 am, Roland Exler <R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at> did thus say >>>
: > ..PHONY: all lms clear
:   ^
: This is not your problem, but you have one too many dots.

Having seen this twice recently, maybe this is a bug in the mail/news gateway
and not in a certain newsreader.
It seems that some people get duplicate dots when they are at the beginning
of the line, while others (e.g. me) just see the correct single dot.
Could maybe someone check the gateway software if it is correctly converting
this. Since dots at the beginning of a line occur in Makefiles, this seems
to cause some confusion.


bye, Alexander

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