Re: [hylafax-users] multiline comments

[Joe <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> 
>> I've installed 4.2.2rc1 on FreeBSD 5.3.  I tried the multiline
>> comments that is supposed to work.  I had a file that was created
>> like...
>> --------------------
>> 1
>> 2
>> 3
>> 4
>> 5
>> 6
>> 7
>> 8
>> 9
>> --------------------
>>
>> I read that into a variable COMMENTS with procmail
>> COMMENTS = `cat $METAMAIL_TMPDIR/mm*` and ran
>> $SENDFAX -f "$FROM" -C "/home/faxuser/hfcvp.ps" -c "$COMMENTS" -r
>> "$SUBJECT" -d "$DS" $METAMAIL_TMPDIR/*
>>
>> The coverpage was created and faxed but the comment output was
>> like this..
>> 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9
>>
>> Any hints?
>>  
>>
> 
> It's probably shell that's stripping out your newlines... not faxcover
> or anything with HylaFAX.
> 
> That said, try replacing your newlines with "\n", that should work.
> 
> Lee.
> 
I'm still a bit confused.  I looked at the file that I was loading
with a hex editor.  It shows this...
31 0A 21 0A 33 0A 34 0A 35 0A 36 OA 37 0A 38 0A 39 0A
Isn't this exactly what it needs?  If it was stripping
the 0A's the I would have one large string 123456789
not 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9?


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