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From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Is UUX looking too closely at its arguments?
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.161715.5495@jwt.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 91 16:17:15 GMT
Organization: Private System -- Orlando, FL
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I have a print program on a remote machine which I try to access with:

uux "remote!print -f/some/path/name !local_file"

This fails on the remote machine, saying "file access denied to user."
Without the -f/path, it works fine.  The -f is simply the full path
name of the local file to be shown on the banner by the print program;
the print program does not try to access the file with that path name.
Substitute -f!some!path!name, and it works fine.  Am I correct in
assuming that uux is looking at the arguments to my program when it
shouldn't be, and if so, can I make it stop?  This is an SVR3.2 system.
TFM does not show -f to be a command line switch to uux.
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John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)