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Re: UFN take 2

Sylvain Langlois <sylvain@cli53an.edf.fr> Mon, 27 January 1992 21:31 UTC

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To: Christian Huitema <Christian.Huitema@sophia.inria.fr>
Cc: Steve Hardcastle-Kille <S.Kille@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, osi-ds <osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, osi-ds@cicb.fr
Subject: Re: UFN take 2
In-Reply-To: Christian Huitema's message of 27 Jan 92 12:00:22 +0000. <199201271100.AA15203@mitsou.inria.fr>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 14:56:29 +0000
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From: Sylvain Langlois <sylvain@cli53an.edf.fr>

> The use of angle brackets does not have these inconvenients. A construction
> of the form:
> 	<DN: Mr Foo-Bar, Foo, Bar, FB>
> could be neat.

Marshall Rose used   double angle brackets  "<<"  and ">>"  in MH  for
bracketing White Pages queries using UFN such as
		       To: << rose, dbc, us >>

I'm a  bit worried about  using this  kind  of  constructs in  a shell
command line: we are going to spend a  lot of time in escaping special
characters. This means  that we are  going  type much more information
than really wanted in a user friendly environment. But maybe this will
be avoided by wonderful new interfaces?

Sylvain

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