just an FYI - don't panic

In message <199505160005.UAA16590 at home.merit.edu>, "Dale S. Johnson" writes:
> 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.


Dale,

It's not really that bad.  If enparse.pl is fixed on the machine to
which the object is submitted, the adjacent lines go through the mail
with no damage and then get put in the database as one big line.
Since this is the last time mildly broken mail systems will get to
corrupt this entry (hopefully whois can deal with long lines), no one
will ever know how this long line got in there.

Curtis

ps-  The change is the part below after the comment.  Since there were
other changes, the context diff probably wouldn't work, so just edit
it in if you want this.  (also "local($more);" doesn't hurt).


sub readsomething {

 ...

    while (<$file>) {

	# normal Unix style line continuation
	while (s/\\\s*$//) {
	    last if (!($more = <$file>));
	    $_ .= $more;
	}



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