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"John F. Chandler" <PEPMNT@CFAAMP>
1987 Apr 7 12:38 EST
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>                                                   Did I misunderstand
>something in RFC822? I thought that the following name field was valid:
>
>     "\"James R. Gerland\""
>
>  The field  is enclosed in double  quotes, which is valid,  and the backslash
>character is  used to quote double-quotes  inside the field, which  is I think
>the way  it should be  done. Anyway  this causes a  syntax error in  the From:
>field.
 
Be careful about backslash -- remember there is a dual mapping between
the ASCII and EBCDIC versions.  Could the problem be that one server
thinks the only correct EBCDIC character is BACKSLASH while the other
thinks it is CENT SIGN?
 
                                       John

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