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From: andrew@root.co.uk (Andrew Dingwall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Imbed spaces in uucp login sequence?
Message-ID: <2497@root44.co.uk>
Date: 24 Oct 90 14:51:45 GMT
References: <370@rick.att.com>
Reply-To: andrew@root.co.uk (Andrew Dingwall)
Organization: UniSoft Ltd, London, England
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In article <370@rick.att.com> ahm@rick.att.com (Andy Meyer) writes:
>
>I need to send a two word command as part of a uucp login sequence.
>How do I prevent the imbedded space from being interpreted as the 
>signal to switch from SEND to EXPECT?
>
>The machine is an AT&T 3B2/400 running Sys V rel 3.2.2.
>Example /usr/lib/uucp/Systems entry:
>oogie Any ACU 1200 5551212 "" \d\r d> "c oogie" ogin: floyd ord: kiddies

Presumably you are running HDB uucp; this should interpret \s as a space
character.

Some versions of uucp understand C octal escape sequences.
On such systems, use \040 for space.

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