Re: Clarification of file formats for recipient list, etc.

"'John K.Eason' [email protected] [blat]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.blat
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> *From:* "'Chip' [email protected] [blat]" 
> <[email protected]>
> *To:* <[email protected]>
> *Date:* Fri, 6 Jun 2014 22:04:36 -0600
> 
> If you want to have spaces in your email address lines, use 
> quotation marks (") to surround the whole of the text.  For example:
> "Chip <[email protected]>".  The use of quotation marks also 
> applies to filenames and pathnames that have spaces.  I know that I
> have not published anything about this for quite some time, but I
> did way back when I added support for people's names to be
> associated with email addresses as shown above.
> 
> As for comments, the default character to mark the start of 
> comments is a semicolon (;).  This character can be changed when
> using the -comment command line option.
> 
>         -comment  <char> : use this character to mark the start of 
> comments
> in options files and recipient list files.  The default is ;

Excellent. Thanks for the clarification. I'll use the semicolon for
comments in future. (Blat has so many command line options that I missed
the -comment entry in the syntax.txt file!) :^)
 
Not a problem, but it does appear that the 'quotation marks round files
with spaces' rule is being ignored in attachment file lists though as
both attachments shown in the following '-af' file that I use are being
sent despite having spaces in their file paths but no quotes round them!

D:\Documents\Surrey PDF\Lad_S2014R1.PDF
D:\Documents\Surrey PDF\Lad_S2014R2.PDF

 Just curious!

Regards
       John
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