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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp
Subject: Re: Wierd HDB/Permissions problems (again)
Message-ID: <9338@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 24 Aug 89 03:25:31 GMT
References: <2328@flatline.UUCP> <29@tons61.UUCP> <1372@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> <2352@flatline.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <2352@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:

>>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.

Perhaps you mean csh.  Typing ! at ksh gives:
 /bin/ksh: !:  not found

Any of the common shells would remove the \ before uuto sees it, though.

Les Mikesell