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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!sgiblab!news.cs.indiana.edu!shutton@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu
  2. From: Scott@indiana.edu (Scott K. Hutton)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
  4. Subject: Underscore in filter
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep6.065910.13534@news.cs.indiana.edu>
  6. Date: 6 Sep 92 06:59:04 GMT
  7. Sender: root@news.cs.indiana.edu (Operator)
  8. Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  9. Lines: 15
  10. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
  11. Mime-Version: 1.0
  12. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4beta PL12]
  13. Content-Length: 437
  14.  
  15. For some unknown reason the underscore in this line in my filter-rules
  16.  
  17.   if (from "geiser") then
  18.     execute "/u/shutton/Script/resend skh_otd@ucs"
  19.  
  20. keeps getting turned into a  space.  I've  verified  this behavior  in
  21. other situations like
  22.  
  23.     forward "skh_otd@ucs"
  24.  
  25. (the original way I tried to  bounce these  messages out).  I'm unable
  26. to escape this character out, either.  Anyone found a reason  for this
  27. or a workaround?
  28.  
  29. -Scott
  30.