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From: romwa@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Mark Dornfeld)
Date: Thu, 24-Dec-87 12:53:30 EST
Message-ID: <1987Dec24.125330.3164@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Change ~ in cu under SCO XENIX
Summary: ~ in cu or ~~ in cucu 
References: <121@sda.atexrd.UUCP>
Reply-To: romwa@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Mark Dornfeld)
Keywords: cu SCO XENIX

In article <121@sda.atexrd.UUCP> sda@atexrd.UUCP (Stephen Ayers) writes:
>I have three SCO XENIX systems that are connected in
>series.  From time to time I need to cu from the first
>system in the chain to the last.  Getting there is no
>problem, the problem comes in issuing '~' command to
>the last system.  The first system grabs all the '~'
>commands.  In the case of '~.' the connection between the
>first and second systems gets dropped, but the cu between
>the second and third is still active.  A simple fix would
>be to change the command char from '~' on one of the lines.
>Such an option is not documented in the man page.  Does
>anyone out there know of an undocumented feature that allows
>this, or perhaps another way entirely?

You can pass a '~' through to the second system by typing a double ~~
at the beginning of the the line.  This is documented.

Mark T. Dornfeld
Royal Ontario Museum
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>
>Thanks in advance!
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