[ale] .signature weirdness

[James Kinney]

Well, aparently, "\_" is treated somewhere as a composite character that
means "remove the \_ from the line".

So my .sig has a .  I tried different escapes and quotes but no luck.

Weird. I'll probably run across the real cause when I least suspect it.

James P. Kinney III   \Changing the mobile computing world/
President and COO      \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244             \.___________________________./

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Fulton Green wrote:

> Have you tried "\\_" (two backslashes and underscore) where you currently
> have the "\_" (backslash and underscore)? I've copied the last line of your
> .sig twice, once for each case. That may not amount to the old hill o' beans.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:55:17AM -0500, James Kinney wrote:
> > OK. This is trivial. But it is irritating me. In my .sig (below) the last
> > line is wrong. There is supposed to be a \ before the string of ___'s. If
> > I cat the ~/.signature file, it is there. But it gets lost when the
> > mailer, pine and balsa, import it in to the mail file. Why and how do I
> > fix it other than a new .sig? I've rewritten the file n^2 times. If I
> > print it (enscript) it prints OK. I'm tired of having to edit _every_
> > email I send just t get the .sig right.
> > 
> > James P. Kinney III   \Changing the mobile computing world/
> > President and COO      \          one Linux user         /
> > Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
> > 770-493-8244             \_____________________________/
> > 770-493-8244             \\_____________________________/
> 

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