Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!flatline!erict
From: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp
Subject: Re: Wierd HDB/Permissions problems (again)
Message-ID: <2352@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 89 14:03:39 GMT
References: <2328@flatline.UUCP> <29@tons61.UUCP> <1372@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Reply-To: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
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In article <1372@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> rich@jolnet.orpk.il.us (Rich Andrews) writes:
>>In article <2328@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>>>etc.  From uhnix1, I did:
>>>uuto part0.Z flatline\!erict
>I think the way that you invoked uuto is where your problem is.
>The man page for uuto says uuto {filename} machine!user.
>It mentions nothing about machine\!user or machine/!user.

"\!" is how you type a "!" when you're using /bin/ksh.  The "!"
alone is a command for the shell, so you have to escape it.
-- 
Good ole' boys,               J. Eric Townsend
tellin' lies,            unet!sugar!flatline!erict com6@uhnix1.uh.edu
'bout time               EastEnders Mailing list: eastender@flatline.UUCP
I got wise. -- B-52's.