[Pan-users] Re: scorefile in 0.14.2.91

[Duncan]

Charles Kerr <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Mon, 17 Jul 2006
17:56:17 -0500:

> Ed Goforth wrote:
> 
>> %BOS
>> [*]
>> Score: =-9999
>>   From: aol.com
>> %EOS
>> 
>> will Pan's scorefile parser barf?  Is this a legal rule?
> 
> I haven't tested it, but it looks legal to me.
> 
> Duncan's understandably confused about the wildcard usage: Pan attempts to
> be compatable with slrn, which rolls its own regular expressions (in the
> slang library) that supports wildmat.
> 
>>>3. I see that Pan surrounds each rule with %BOS and %EOS.  Does it place
>>>any significance in these or are they just for readability.
> 
> Yes, though not a major one.
> %BOS and %EOS are used by the scorefile-tidying utility "cleanscore".

Cool!  Both those factors are new  to me! =8^)

Is cleanscore shipped as a separate package?  I don't see it in the Gentoo
tree.  Is it part of slrn or something else?  It doesn't appear to be part
of the pan build (unless it is built with a separate make target or
something).



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