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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: dumbest guy in the world
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.063042.2817@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 06:30:42 GMT
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kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires) writes:

>I still say I'm the dumbest guy in the world.  I've downloaded the !Index file
>and the !ReadMe file to my local directory and am not able to read it.  How,
>I axe you, HOW does one read it.  I think the unix I'm on has problems with the
>! in filenames, but I really don't know.

Unix command lines usually use ! to indicate that you want to substitute one
of the most recent commands -- type a \! instead of a ! and you won't get an
'event not found' anymore. For example:
	more \!ReadMe
	more \!Index

In both cases, the \ indicates that the immediately following ! is a real !
and not something special (which is what it normally is, and that was why you
are having problems).

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu