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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: replying when all I have is ..!something!something_else
Summary: You're probably using an obnoxious shell
Message-ID: <683@wet.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 07:05:59 GMT
References: <5773@merlin.usc.edu> <5777@merlin.usc.edu>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <5777@merlin.usc.edu> griffin@nunki.usc.edu (Dennis Griffin) writes:
>	The actual response that mail gives me is "Event Not Found"

Betcha you're using some form of csh ("c shell").
! is a magic history substitution character--even in "quotes"

You have to prefix EVERY ! with a \ when typing to csh\!  :-)
(sh and ksh users, don't worry, this doesn't apply to you)

					-=EPS=-