The Line Continuation Character

Many Aurea List Manager commands require that all information for the command be contained on one line. If your Aurea List Manager command does not fit on one line, you can use the line continuation character to tell it that the next line in your message should be treated as part of this line. The line continuation character is the ampersand character.

For example, a simple subscribe request, such as subscribe jazztalk Robert Smith,  can be written with the line continuation character as:

subscribe jazztalk &
Robert Smith

or even as:

subscribe &
jazztalk &
Robert &
Smith

The slash character ("\") can be used as a line continuation character, instead of using the ampersand. For example:

subscribe \
jazztalk \
Robert \
Smith

Another example of a good use of the line continuation character is multiple commands to the listmanager@ address, i.e., to unsubscribe multiple members using the Delete command:

login xxxxxx
delete listname quiet &
Member1@example.com &
Member2@example.com &
Member3@example.com &
end

You may also use << and >> to delimit a list of items that should be considered as a single line.

For example:

login xxxxxx
add jazztalk <<
Member1@example.com
Member2@example.com
Member3@example.com
>>

By using the << and >> delimiters, you don't have to place a "&" or "\" at the end of each line.