The foward-slash is an escape sequence.  Better use a wild-card(s).

BTW, though I don't know if Karen's continuation syntax is correct, I do
know that when I've need to, I've prepended the continued lines with
double-forward-shash space (and that does work).

At 14:10 07/19/2001 Thursday, Karen Reznek wrote:
 >Winship wrote:
 >
 >> > change autocat [log in to unmask]
 >[log in to unmask]
 >> Missing parameter - specify a target e-mail address.
 >
 >Try:
 >
 >// change autocat [log in to unmask] ,
 >[log in to unmask]
 >
 >With the '// ' and the ' ,' Listserv will recognize that the command
 >wraps to the next line(s).