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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-10-17 16:42:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-10-17 16:42:58 +0000 |
| commit | 6acb0b4730875ea953f04df5fa6c5680fd98ca09 (patch) | |
| tree | e25242b148b18f9356645cb37650dc94acffb468 /fetchmail.man | |
| parent | a9eb6d847ec9c80ad409cfd9ffff6777bc9bb0dd (diff) | |
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Allow C-style escapes in strings.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 835cd20a..15df5fb8 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -188,7 +188,9 @@ No POP connection is made. Instead, for each server specified, all option information that would be computed if .I fetchmail. -were connecting to that server is displayed. +were connecting to that server is displayed. Any non-printables in +passwords or other string names are shown as backslashed C-like +escape sequences. .PP Each server name that you specify following the options on the command line will be queried. If you don't specify any servers @@ -365,6 +367,8 @@ Any amount of whitespace separates keywords, tokens, or strings in server entries but is otherwise ignored (but whitespace enclosed in double quotes is treated as part of the string). Keywords and identifiers are case sensitive. +You may use standard C-style escapes (\en, \et, \eb, octal, and hex) +to embed non-printable characters or string delimiters in strings. When there is a conflict between the command-line arguments and the arguments in this file, the command-line arguments take precedence. .PP |