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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Crontab and the % character
Date: 11 Sep 1995 12:12:21 +0200
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Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> wrote:

>This is a bug.  Try this patch.  It turns "\%" into "%", "\\" into "\",
>and leaves "\*" (where * is any character other than % or \) alone.

Integrated into -current.  Thanks!
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)