just an FYI - don't panic

Dale S. Johnson (dsj at merit.edu) on May 15:
> Curtis,
> 
> > From curtis at curtis.ansremote.com Fri May 12 20:38:24 1995
> > To: cengiz at isi.edu (Cengiz Alaettinoglu)
> > Cc: curtis at ans.net, Tony Bates <Tony.Bates at ns.mci.net>, rr-impl at ripe.net,
> >         heimlich at ans.net, selina at ans.net
> > Reply-To: curtis at ans.net
> > Subject: Re: just an FYI - don't panic 
> > Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 20:29:13 -0400
> > 
> > 
> > In message <199505112257.AA26819 at cat.isi.edu>, Cengiz Alaettinoglu writes:
> > > 
> > > There is a way to do this with ripe-181 line continuations (at least
> > > according to the documentation, the tools (i.e. dbupdate) may not
> > > implement this correctly):
> > > 
> > > as-in: ... accept ASxxx AND NOT { 1, 2, 3
> > > as-in: ... accept , 4, 5}
> > > 
> > > Note that ... must be identical on both lines.
> > 
> > 
> > Hey that does seem to work.  Oops.  Sorry Tony.
> > 
> > Is it OK if I added about 4 lines of code in enparse.pl to do Unix
> > style backslash at the end of the line continuation?
> 
> This is a great idea;  I think it should be done.  But...
> 
> in order for this idea to be completely implemented, the change has to
> be installed in Amsterdam, Reston, and Toronto as well as Ann Arbor;
> and probably several places (ESNet, DSI, NASA, APNIC) that we aren't
> sure of yet.
> 
> Also, is enparse.pl part of any of the tools?  Then it needs to be
> changed in all the copies of those tools that anyone has FTP'd as 
> well.
> 

In addition, if the whois/radbserver returns result with Unix style
backslashes, all the tools (pr*, peval) need to recognise them as
well.

I am still for this change since we still have few tools. But perhaps
we should add this when we add support for rpsl at which time we need
to upgrade all tools anyway.

Cengiz

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