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From:	goon <quanstro@sartre.minerva.bah.com>
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To:	<sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Subject: s cmd lossage
Apparently-To: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu

this s command lost with the latest (straight from at&t)
version of sam.
	s:(([A-Z][a-z]*[ ]?)+)[ 	]+([0-9]+):NAME	\1\nPHONE 205 \2\n:g
				^- space tab

what happened was that \2 was set to \1. i rewrote the command without 
the nested parens (i really hadn't expected the command to work),
and things were Happy. the working rewritten command is
	s:([A-Za-z ]+)[ 	]+([0-9]+):NAME	\1\nPHONE 205 \2\n:g