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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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[.....]
> > The first is just wrong, and the second is a mis-quote.  I originally
> > said:
> >
> >> More like:
> >>
> >>>> cc[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]]mm[.ss]]

Arrrghhhhhh !  Your mailer is gobbling the "open square brace" 
characters !  That is *NOT* what I posted.  There are two opening 
brackets prior to the ``cc'' that something's eating.

I'm sure we can all agree that this means the above usage (with the 
two wandering brackets included) is correct ?

[.....]
> Greg
> 

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....