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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to jayjwa   
   Re: Percent-Sign Prefix For System Messa   
   21 Oct 25 23:05:52   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:25:17 -0400, jayjwa wrote:   
      
   > I use it in the rc.decnet switch from the Slack build for Linux   
   > DECnet. Always liked those messages. Real computer sciency.   
      
   Despite my long-time DEC exposure, I never associated DEC with being   
   particularly “computer sciency”, but hey. ;)   
      
   > "%" must be escaped due to it being used in a format expression   
   > below   
      
   I hate that kind of thing. It’s quite unnecessary.   
      
   > 	   printf "${RED}${EFNOEXIST}check config files' readability and   
   location${NC}\\n"   
      
   Why are you even using printf here?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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