RFD: using "*" in phone-number with faxspool

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Timo Neumann writes:

> I want to send a fax to the phone-number "**" but faxspool only
> allows [-0-9TtPpW,;] for the phone-number.

> james@kirk:/home/james/mgetty-1.1.20/fax > diff faxrunqd.in faxrunqd.in.new
> 856c856
> <              @flags, $phone,
> ---
> >              @flags, \"$phone\",

Hm, that should be "\"$phone\"" or '"'.$phone.'"' otherwise perl will
not compile it.

However, the line is part of an "exec" command and there is no
wildcard expansion. I believe the quotes are not necessary at all.

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