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authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2003-04-23 20:22:12 (GMT)
committerSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2003-04-23 20:22:12 (GMT)
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\begin{memberdesc}{macros}
Dictionary mapping macro names to string lists.
\end{memberdesc}
+
+\note{Versions of this module before 2.2.3 and 2.3 are very limited to a
+subset of the ASCII character set for passwords. Starting with 2.2.3 and
+2.3, ASCII punctuation is allowed in passwords. However, note that spaces
+and non-printable characters are not allowed in passwords. This is a
+limitation of the way the .netrc file is parsed and should be removed in the
+future.}