From: David Kastrup Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:13:53 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 Message-ID: <86abmcsq0u.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> In-Reply-To: <87sl0469gb.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> Michael Poole writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> I think that most countries will grant some right to the purchaser of >> a physical copy of copyrighted material. For example, I doubt there >> are countries where it is prohibited to read a book you have bought >> (via a channel authorized by the copyright holder) when it contains >> no explicit license granting you the right to read it. > > I see two serious dis-analogies here: > > How many users of msysgit purchase a physical copy of it? "Acquire an authorized copy" is the relevant phrase here. And that will be the case for pretty much every user. > 75.145.205-121-BusName-sterling.va.richmond.hfc.comcastbusiness.net!^Q > ^ ^-illegal control character > \-Extraneous program text > > .. where my mail host does not use that name for any reason; vger > seems to be doing a DNS PTR lookup, then mangling the response.] It may be that your version of Emacs is injecting C-d characters after column 255 in a line. -- David Kastrup