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[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:04:50PM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:57 pm, Chris wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 June 2004 05:52 pm, James Gray wrote:
> > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:19 am, Chris wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 23 June 2004 04:03 pm, James Gray wrote:
> OK - really dumb question, but are you separating the fields in the rule
> file with tabs?  You can't use spaces in ".rules" files.  I always put a
> blank line on the end of files (old habit...probably should get out of it)
> which doesn't seem to break anything.

If I remember correctly it's actually only filename.rules.conf and
filetype.rules.conf that require tabs. This is because those files
contain a field that may contain a phrase that includes spaces.

-Eric Rz.

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