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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 17:03:49 +0200
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: bin/657: mail(1): comments in ~/.mailrc
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>Number:         657
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       mail(1): comments in ~/.mailrc
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug  6 17:20:01 PDT 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Wolfram Schneider
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-ALPHA i386
>Environment:

	

>Description:

	'#' is not a comment if a non-space char follow

>How-To-Repeat:

	$ echo '#foo' >> ~/.mailrc
	$ echo foo | mail /dev/null
	Unknown command: "#foo"

>Fix:
	

--- 1.1	1995/08/06 11:39:22
+++ lex.c	1995/08/06 12:03:10
@@ -458,6 +458,17 @@
 	register struct cmd *cp;
 	extern struct cmd cmdtab[];
 
+	/*
+	 * ignore trailing chars after `#' 
+	 *
+	 * lines with beginning `#' are comments
+	 * spaces befor `#' are ignored in execute()
+	 */
+
+	if (*word == '#')
+	    *(word+1) = '\0';
+
+
 	for (cp = &cmdtab[0]; cp->c_name != NOSTR; cp++)
 		if (isprefix(word, cp->c_name))
 			return(cp);
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: