On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:07:22 -0500, hello-yarners@see.my.sig (Tim Myddleten)
wrote:
>
>It's not a blank line, it's just spaces up to the end of the line of
>your "place holder" to pad it out. To eliminate this you must make the
>address in your yarn CONFIG file the exact same length as your
>replacement strings in the Yarf.cfg... i also find this EXTREMELY
>annoying... but not quite extremely annoying enough to do anything
>about it...
Thanks for the info. I figured it out right after I posted the message
to the list. Should've done a little more experimentation before making
any claims of a bug and such. ;-)
[Snip!]
>Yarf just sucks the header into memory and does the simplest of
>"searches" on it... therefore your suggestion #1 would be impossible
>for Yarf without a serious rewrite. Your suggestion #2 would be
>easier... the easiest way would be to have a more sophisticated yarf
>config file that allows for multiple random possible replacement
>strings for each match.
Thanks for the feedback. . .be as it is, Yarf! is an extremely useful
program. I really hope that you will decide to 'enhance' it sometime in
the future.
>But i've been meaning to put wild-card searching abilities into the
>search routine for a long time now and still haven't done that... so
>don't hold your breath. (-: It is and remains an extremely crude
>hack.. sigh.
On a totally unrelated note: Although you have said that there are
currently no plans of porting YEP to DOS, how about getting in contact
with Per (author of YES) and 'collaborating' with him on an new and
enhanced version of YES? Just a thought. . . ;-)
Jose S.
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