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zmconfig.pl chokes on entering an email address with an @ at-sign, and instead leaves it to blank. Unfortunately it won't take an email address without an at-sign in it either. I am using zm-1.18.1

I tried to escape it with a backslash, various quotes, but no go.

>Backslash found where operator expected at (eval 34) line 1, near "$1\"
> (Missing operator before \?)
(and the same for the following two email addresses)

I edited zmconfig.txt manually and entered the email addresses with the at-sign escaped by a backslash, and then did a -noi and it didn't complain.

Another minor annoyance is the width,height questions. The default of 0 doesn't work. You have to actually enter a 0 (or other number) for it to be accepted.

What width should each monitor in the montage view be (integer) [0] :
Invalid input, please re-enter or type '?' for help.

(sorry about the previous blank thread... new to this forum)
-Sean

Hi Sean,

zmconfig.pl is a bit of a hangover from previous versions. You should find it much easier to fill in the rest of the config from the web interface once you've answered the few handful of questions.

Phil,