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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: cu - cant seem to get ~%take working
Keywords: cu
Message-ID: <1990Nov01.134755.9623@virtech.uucp>
Date: 1 Nov 90 13:47:55 GMT
References: <272F1280.18291@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Distribution: comp.unix.questions
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <272F1280.18291@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs3ea3aq@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Kerr        PM) writes:
>
>I am trying to transfer a file from school to my home, ~%put works fine
>but when I try and use ~%take <file> I get the following message
>stty -echo; if test -r <file>; then (echo '~>':<file>; cat <file>;echo '~>');
>else echo cant\'t open: <file>; fi; stty echo
>badly placed ()'s

The problem is that your loging shell on the foreign system (where you want to 
take the data from) is the C shell.  start up a borne/korn shell before you
attempt the ~%take.

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