[Info-vax] bizarre SMTP problem

[Michael Moroney]

helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:

>In article <grlpgq$2k2$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
>(Michael Moroney) writes: 

>> helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:
>> 
>> >> aka: the + seems to be used as a "," to delimit multiple destinations
>> 
>> >That's what I guessed.  Is this documented anywhere?
>> 
>> I'll guess that MAIL uses a DCL parsing routine to parse that To: line.
>> In DCL, the "+" works similar to a ",", but they don't always mean the same
>> thing.  Some DCL commands treat the "+" as combining the inputs into one,
>> but offhand I can't think of any.

>FORTRAN.

Aha, that's right.  CC does as well.  CC A,B will compile A.C and B.C
separately while CC A+B will compile them together as if it was all in
one file.