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From: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: backslashes in uuxqt command cause lossage
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Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 02:30:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 27 02:30:13 1986
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>> I discovered today that if you uux a command that contains one or
>> more backslashes, you get "execution permission denied" mail.
>
>Yep. HDB uuxqt rejects commands with a backslash or a backquote.

Ditto for 4.3BSD. The complete set of nasty characters (in ASCII order) is

	"&'(;<>\^`{|}

4.2BSD and SVR2.2 are the less strict; they allow the parentheses, backslash,
and braces.  Note that '(' is verboten, but ')' is not. Curious.

Of course, none of this is documented anywhere....

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