stange symbols in notifications

[Hari Sekhon]

Thomas Sluyter wrote:
>> After following your suggestion regarding prinf and checking the 
>> previously unchanged misccommand.cfg I'm not entirely sure what is 
>> going on here. The definition for email is below:
>> ...
>> This doesn't look bad to me, it seems to simply be using lots of 
>> Macro$ so I assume that the macro must be sending it something funny....
>> Will have to scratch my head and try to track that down.
>
> You -did- notice that to printf "\b" is a backspace, right? Which 
> would totally explain what you're seeing...
>
err, I think that is the notation for a backslash escaped sequence, not 
a backspace character, which is \b.

It turns out that the points at which I am getting those strange squares 
is actually replacing "\\" and "\" in \\hostname\sharename.

So I know where the problem is and what part needs fixing, but I have 
tried to recreate it on the command line but the message never comes 
through to me to fully diagnose.

eg..

echo '\\hostname\sharename' | mail -s "test" me at mydomain.com

but I haven't gotten this. Strange, that now I'm not getting messages 
from /bin/mail. Will have to look into this and get back to you.


Hari

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