Re: [slrn] slrnface

On 2005-07-28, hopflop <---@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed with big furry paws:
>
>> On 2005-07-27, hopflop <---@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> What does slrnface do when there's no X-Face to show?
>>
>> It shows nothing :)) Does slrnface even get run if there isn't an
>> X-Face header?
>
> As far as I could tell from reading the C source (which I'm no good
> at) there's some piping system going on. Slrnface.sl writes to a file
> and slrnface reads it. So slrnface is running all the time, I think.
>
>> That's a nice suite of X-Faces you've got there.
>
> Thanks. Yours gave me lots of grief while I was testing my app's
> display abilities. You have a space and a tab in your X-Face header.
>
> It forced me to learn some s-lang to filter out the bad chars. It was
> good for me, so thanks for that :)

I didn't do that on purpose ;)) I had fun putting all the 'escapes' into
it in my ~/.slrnrc to get slrn to send the correct string.

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