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DOS-DPMI, OS/2-libc066, Win32-msvc6dll, Win64-msvc10dll uploaded to:

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Changelog:
fidoconf:
new feature: config line ending with " \" continues at the next line

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Re: Husky 1.9 snapshot 2021.07.24
By: Max Vasilyev to All on Sat Jul 24 2021 11:29 pm

new feature: config line ending with " \" continues at the next line

It's not really my business, but that doesn't sound like a backwards-compatible change. What if somenoe had in their config file

Inbound \fido\in\
Outbound \fido\out\

?
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Hello, Rob Swindell.
On 26/07/2021 0.19 you wrote:

Re: Husky 1.9 snapshot 2021.07.24
By: Max Vasilyev to All on Sat Jul 24 2021 11:29 pm

new feature: config line ending with " \" continues at the next line

It's not really my business, but that doesn't sound like a backwards-compatible change. What if somenoe had in their config file
Inbound \fido\in\
Outbound \fido\out\
?

Those lines do not end with " \" .

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Re: Husky 1.9 snapshot 2021.07.24
By: Tommi Koivula to Rob Swindell on Mon Jul 26 2021 08:35 am

Hello, Rob Swindell.
On 26/07/2021 0.19 you wrote:

Re: Husky 1.9 snapshot 2021.07.24
By: Max Vasilyev to All on Sat Jul 24 2021 11:29 pm

new feature: config line ending with " \" continues at the next line

It's not really my business, but that doesn't sound like a backwards-compatible change. What if somenoe had in their config file Inbound \fido\in\
Outbound \fido\out\
?

Those lines do not end with " \" .

Ah, good point! I didn't notice the leading-space there.
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Hello, Rob Swindell.
On 27/07/2021 0.08 you wrote:

Re: Husky 1.9 snapshot 2021.07.24
By: Tommi Koivula to Rob Swindell on Mon Jul 26 2021 08:35 am

Hello, Rob Swindell.
On 26/07/2021 0.19 you wrote:

Re: Husky 1.9 snapshot 2021.07.24
By: Max Vasilyev to All on Sat Jul 24 2021 11:29 pm

new feature: config line ending with " \" continues at the next line

It's not really my business, but that doesn't sound like a
backwards-compatible change. What if somenoe had in their config file
Inbound \fido\in\
Outbound \fido\out\
?

Those lines do not end with " \" .

Ah, good point! I didn't notice the leading-space there.

Yeah. ;)

However, splitting config lines that way may break some old 3rd party utils.


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Hello Tommi,

Tuesday July 27 2021, Tommi Koivula wrote to Rob Swindell:

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However, splitting config lines that way may break some old 3rd party utils.

I added this feature for the only reason: I want to have a possibility of using lines of 80 characters long in a sample config in the documentation, so the lines are not stripped after the text is exported to pdf. Therefore one can use in real life a sample config with line continuations. But it is not meant for regular use. After any change in a line with continuations, all continuations will be appended to the first part of the line forming a line without continuations. So one should not use line continuations to make a config look nicer.

Michael

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Hello Michael!

28 Jul 21, Michael Dukelsky wrote to Tommi Koivula:

I added this feature for the only reason: I want to have a possibility
of using lines of 80 characters long in a sample config in the documentation, so the lines are not stripped after the text is
exported to pdf. Therefore one can use in real life a sample config
with line continuations. But it is not meant for regular use.

So one should not use line continuations to make a config look nicer.

This explains a lot but i'm afraid this would require detailed documentation or it would lead to confusion.

In the distance i can see the bug reports coming: " \" not working properly...

Regards

Kai

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Hello Kai,

Wednesday July 28 2021, Kai Richter wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

I added this feature for the only reason: I want to have a
possibility of using lines of 80 characters long in a sample
config in the documentation, so the lines are not stripped after
the text is exported to pdf. Therefore one can use in real life a
sample config with line continuations. But it is not meant for
regular use.

So one should not use line continuations to make a config look
nicer.

This explains a lot but i'm afraid this would require detailed documentation or it would lead to confusion.

In the distance i can see the bug reports coming: " \" not working properly...

A fair remark. I updated documentation.

Michael

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