Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11>
Thu, 4 Sep 1986 22:37 SET
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Actually there is a "fake" TITLE= keyword for the list title in V1.4. It can
be retrieved by asking for keyword "TITLE" but is not defined in the header,
it's just the first nonblank comment line. As you may know it's not possible to
define a keyword containing blanks except by putting it into double-quotes, and
even this was a pain to code -- I mean, I wanted it *fast* and it was not an
easy goal to achieve. I have one list with double quotes in its title, and like
it that way. Besides it's nicer for users to have the real title rather than
"Title=..." One of the reasons why titles are on commented lines is that they
are automatically pulled up when sorted; another reason is that it's a lot
easier and faster to retrieve the userids lines -- anything not starting with a
'*' is a userid. And if keywords are on noncomment lines, any user can add a
new keyword by signing up with name = "owner= myself@mynode". Or then you disal
low the "=" character on both name and userid. By the way, it reminds me that
you can have a userid of "*xx" and add a keyword to an open list by subscri-
bing to it, will have to fix that :-)
I had sent mail to the list about being back to school and not being able to
send out V1.4 because the docs are not finished. It seems like I messed up my
names file and the mail went to RELAY-L instead. Anyway, I am not going to ship
1.4 before I have the docs up to date, and I'll be nearly off the net during a
long time (as last year :-( ). You can get the new refcard from my server by
sending it an "info REFcard" command (try also "info feat" and "info key").
Eric
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