Re: lines matching N and N+1

On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:00:15 -0000, "Daniel" <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Thanks for checking. That's really interesting.
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> Here is a screenshot (google chrome) of what 
> I see (message 9157) on windows xp computer:
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> http://i1281.photobucket.com/albums/a506/parker-fuzzy/drop-gc_zpse5056428.gif 
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> http://tinyurl.com/b3yr53p is the same screenshot
> in a more friendly url.
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> Here is a restatement of the problem I see:
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> #1 (\bfoo\b syntax) script shows fine.
> #2 (verbatim GT LT) script mangled (messed up).
> #3 (GT LT HTML entities) script shows fine.
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> By mangled, I mean "foo", "bar", LT, GT are omitted. 
> LT and GT are "less than" and "greater than". I 
> hesitate to use the real symbols, because I'm 
> arguing that yahoo groups deletes them sometimes.
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> I also tested with firefox and IE on windows
> xp PC. Exactly same problem, same appearance.
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> Next, I tested on ipod touch (safari) and a 
> windows 7 PC (IE). Again, same problem. In all 
> my tests, #2 script NEVER displayed correctly.
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> It's hard to believe there could be a technical
> glitch with yahoo groups, that it might delete
> parts of sed scripts using GT and LT. That would 
> be downright evil, if yahoo mangled our syntax.
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> Seems more likely something I'm doing wrong. But 
> in that case, I can't explain why problem occurs 
> in so many browsers and hardware platforms.
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> So, if you see the script correctly in message
> 9157 (#2 and #3 appear the same), could you 
> possibly send a screenshot, and how you viewed?

Well, I viewed it with a MUA, not using webmail.

Screenshot here: http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/6656/email2y.png

Looking at the source, I see these headers:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hope this helps.

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D.