Would it be a good idea to have the default to use s: : :g
	on the assumption that yo'r eunlikely to get : in passwords or
	login names? :)

		David/absolute

 -=-  "I know its not the right thing, and I know its not the good thing"  -=-

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> > 
> > THe problem goes further then that.  I have an account with Primenet and
> > when you login via ppp you have to have pri/Ppatriot in the login field.
> > I wonder if that is causing a problem.  I have my login script saying
> > s/\$LOGIN/pri/Plogin/g
> > s/\$PASSWD/password/g
> > with "login" being my real login and the password being my real password
> > (didn't want to send them out to everybody ;P
> > 
> > Anyone with any ideas?
> 
> I thought I mentioned this in the notes, but I don't seem to.
> 
> Change the s/ / /g stuff to
>            s| | |g .
> 
> The fact that there's a "/" in the login field means that you can't use it
> as a seperator in the replacement command. Use any character not in either
> word, and you're fine.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill
>