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IPv6 address/port format

Subject: IPv6 address/port format
From: [email protected] (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: 14 Jan 2000 12:02:51 -0500
In-reply-to: Nathan Dorfman's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:44:09 -0500"
References: <v0313031fb4a1458de4c6@[10.33.10.14]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>

Nathan Dorfman <[email protected]> writes:
> [ and ] are metacharacters in the POSIX-specified standard Unix shell;
> as well as bash, bash2, ksh, csh, tcsh and zsh. Since this list
> comprises something like 99% of all Unix shells used, characters
> marked as reserved by *all* of them are a really bad choice.

Who the hell cares? No one is going to enter in address literals
except in extreme circumstances anyway. They're a mile long.

.pm

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