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From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: File Sys chars
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.022407.19411@ee.ualberta.ca>
Date: 22 Feb 91 02:24:07 GMT
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In article <7753368@ub.cc.umich.edu> Tabakal@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU writes:
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[...]
> > 
> > One comment, How about getting rid of those pesky '!' in the filenames.
> > My Unix shell doesn't like them. I can only access the files after
> > DLing by using wildcards, such as *Index instead of !Index.
> > 
> 
>But, you can always type GET "!Index" and your Unix system will pass the
>line on exactly to the other file system as per the RFC.
> 
>    Todd A. Bakal                                Coming soon:

Or you can escape the !'s with a \ which works just fine for me (csh user).
The neat thing about Unix is there is always more than one way to do some-
thing, unlike some other computers and operating systems.
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    Jerry Penner	alberta!bode!jpenne	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada


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