Subj : Re: GoldMine - Connecting from Synchronet BBS
To   : Gamgee
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Oct 29 2024 01:17 pm

  Re: Re: GoldMine - Connecting from Synchronet BBS
  By: Gamgee to Digital Man on Tue Oct 29 2024 01:46 pm

 >  DM> Does that work with multi-word user aliases? You might have to do
 >  DM> something like this to be compatible with multi-word aliases: "[TAG]%A"
 >  DM> - the capitalize the 'A' to prevent the auto-quoting and add quotes
 >  DM> around the entire name with the [TAG] part.
 >
 > It does NOT work with multi-word alias, unless the quotes are also used.
 > Then it gets a little weird...  When using the quotes, neither %a nor %A
 > expand to the user's alias, they just show as "%a" or "%A".

Yeah, I'm not surprised. The additional quotes was just an idea, but looking at the source code now, I see there's no special handling of quotes on command-lines within SBBS.

 > Without the quotes, the %a or %A work, but only with a single-word
 > [TAG].

Yup, I can see how that'd be the case.
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