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From: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Keith Petersen)
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Subject: poke&go1.doc
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 00:22:55 EST
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    Whenever I try to retrive POKE&GO1.DOC from micro:<cpm.z3new>
    I get "File not accessable. Invalid character in filename."
    The ampersand???

Peter, you hit the nail right on the head.  Some characters are
reserved under the TOPS-20 operating system we use here at SIMTEL20.
The solution is to include a Control-V just ahead of such characters
when you tell FTP what file you want.  In this case it would be:

MICRO:<CPM.Z3NEW>POKE^V&GO1.DOC

(where the ^V is a control-V, of course).  The control-V is a "quote
next character" command.

--Keith