Re: question regarding post-installed packages

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: question regarding post-installed packages
Date	2021-06-23 05:40 +0200
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On Ma, 22 iun 21, 11:25:00, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 05:08:35PM +0200, Christian wrote:
> > Hi Andrei,
> > 
> > thanks a lot for your reply. 😁
> > 
> > > It's unclear what exactly '/comm -23' is supposed to be
> > 
> > Well, from the man pages (man comm) :
> > 
> > /comm [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2//
> 
> Your mail user agent (or your editor) appears to be adding forward slash
> characters to lines, perhaps to represent "this is terminal input/output",
> or "use a fixed-width font", or something similar.
> 
> These slash characters are causing some confusion.
> 
> > //
> > //DESCRIPTION//
> > //       Compare sorted files FILE1 and FILE2 line by line.
> 
> They're a bit messy.  It takes some guesswork to extract the valid shell
> command from inside the slashed-up text, especially when the number of
> slashes added per line is variable.
 
It seems to be due to this particular mail client's attempt to generate 
a plain text version of a message originally composed as html.

Christian, please post only in plain text to debian-user, especially 
when copy-pasting shell commands (or output).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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question regarding post-installed packages Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-22 15:40 +0200
  Re: question regarding post-installed packages Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-06-22 16:00 +0200
    Re: question regarding post-installed packages Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-22 16:20 +0200
      Re: question regarding post-installed packages Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-06-22 16:40 +0200
        Re: question regarding post-installed packages Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-22 17:10 +0200
  Re: question regarding post-installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 16:50 +0200
    Re: question regarding post-installed packages Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 17:10 +0200
      Re: question regarding post-installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 06:00 +0200
        Re: question regarding post-installed packages David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 09:10 +0200
          Re: question regarding post-installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 14:50 +0200
        Re: question regarding post-installed packages <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-06-23 09:30 +0200
          Re: question regarding post-installed packages <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-06-23 10:10 +0200
          Re: question regarding post-installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 14:50 +0200
          Re: question regarding post-installed packages David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-23 17:00 +0200
    Re: question regarding post-installed packages Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-22 17:10 +0200
      Re: question regarding post-installed packages Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 17:40 +0200
        Re: question regarding post-installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 05:40 +0200

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