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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: replying when all I have is ..!something!something_else
Message-ID: <1699@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 89 15:48:31 GMT
References: <5773@merlin.usc.edu> <5777@merlin.usc.edu>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
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Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Penn State University
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In article <5777@merlin.usc.edu> griffin@nunki.usc.edu (Dennis Griffin) writes:
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|	The actual response that mail gives me is "Event Not Found"

aha!  You're using csh, or something else that uses the ! for something
special.  You need to "escape" your !'s, with \'s.  So mail to host!user
should be typed mail host\!user.

This bugged me for quite a while when I first started UUCP paths...

 Bill
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