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  6. From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
  7. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
  8. Subject: Re: C-Kermit weirdness
  9. Date: 1 Dec 1994 14:46:41 GMT
  10. Organization: Columbia University
  11. Lines: 31
  12. Message-Id: <3bknkh$984@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
  13. References: <D03rM7.37t@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>
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  16.  
  17. In article <D03rM7.37t@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>,
  18. Erik Hatcher <esh6h@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU> wrote:
  19. >To make a long story short, he is trying to put things like
  20. >":-(" in the subject and it is causing problems.  Below is
  21. >a test I performed that gives me the same error.
  22. >...
  23. >arglist = echo 1=(\%1) 2=(\%2) 3=(\%3)
  24. >C-Kermit>xif success {arglist {(},show macro arglist}
  25. >?No keywords match - glist
  26. >
  27. >I realize that the "(" is potentially bad and that is exactly
  28. >what is causing the problem.  What can I do to alleviate
  29. >this weirdness?
  30. >
  31. Quote the parentheses by giving the ASCII character value:
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  33.   xif success {arglist {\40},show macro arglist}
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  35. - Frank
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