Talk:Setting up a mailserver
Escaping line breaks with \'s should work, period. Why would it not? (only reason I can think of that it wouldn't is if you add a space before that line break (eg \ [linebreak] instead of \[linebreak]).
don't ask me why not, but I know for a fact I've had to edit it out in several scripts / conf files / I forget exactly what and when, when compiling software written for linux. 99% of the time it works, but you never know when that 1% that it won't work is going to bite you in the ass. Safer just not to fsck with it.
--Jimbo 23:59, 5 Nov 2004 (EST)
the thought occurs that sh and bash/csh/etc might treat \ differently? dunno what else it could be. the only time i use it is directly at the CLI, scripts and files i just keep typing and let vi wrap the line. i've never run across this myself.
--Dave
