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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: <6700028@adaptex>
Message-ID: <129@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 89 16:54:33 GMT
References: <6700028@adaptex> <6700034@adaptex>
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <6700034@adaptex> neese@adaptex.UUCP writes:
<
<>Well, after much frustration and effort and the purchase of another smart
<>serial adapter and the purchase of a Telebit T1000 modem, 'adaptex' can
<>now be bi-directional.  On adaptex is several MS-DOS utilities that were
<>written for the AHA-1540[A]/1542[A]/1640 SCSI Host Adapters.  To get into
<>adaptex:
<>
<>adaptex Any ACU 9600 18174886893 --gin:-BREAK-gin:-BREAK-gin:-BREAK-gin: suucp
<>
<>'adaptex' will answer at 9600 baud, but will cycle down to 2400 and then 1200
<>buad, so the reason for the BREAK sequences in the login.
<>
<>To get a list and description of the files at 'adaptex', use:
<>
<>uucp adaptex!~/list /usr/spool/uucppublic/list
<
<Well, RTFM caused this screwup.  The '~' was supposed to be expanded to the
<path in the passwd file.  It doesn't get expanded so here's what you need
<to get the stuff.
<
<uucp adaptex!/usr/spool/uucppublic/scsiutil/list /usr/spool/uucppublic/list

The '~' will not expand the way it is written in the above uucp command.  It
looks like it should be:

	uucp adaptex!~uucp/scsiutil/list ~uucp   (use \! for csh command line)

Depending on the system, the uucp may be nuucp.  You must remember that the
'~' needs a name of the user in the password file, before it can be expanded.
The idea of the '~' without anything is for when a user is logged into a system
and the '~' then gets expanded to the user's home, ie, ~/.login will find the
user's .login file.

Hope this helps a little bit.
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