line-char

[Erik Ostrom <eostrom@research.att.com>]

>I was reading the MCP BNF today and noticed that neither an asterisk
>nor a full colon could, according to the BNF as I am reading it, occur
>in a multi-line value.  I can see no problems resultant to their
>inclusion, and I was wondering if this was intentional and if it was
>necessary?

Neither.  Any printable character should be valid in a multiline
field.  (Except maaaybe tab.)  Continuing our "post-final" doctoring
of the spec, let's just add ':' and '*' to the definition of
<line-char>.

--Erik