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From: rich@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Rich Andrews)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp
Subject: Re: Wierd HDB/Permissions problems (again)
Message-ID: <1399@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 25 Aug 89 00:45:56 GMT
References: <2328@flatline.UUCP> <29@tons61.UUCP> <1372@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> <2352@flatline.UUCP>
Reply-To: rich@jolnet.orpk.il.us (Rich Andrews)
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In article <2352@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>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.



Gee, what command is that?  I use ksh all the time on several machines
and never had to escape "!".  



rich andrews



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