Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!dalcs!thompson
From: thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Problem with caret ('^') in addresses with uux
Message-ID: <2822@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 17:48:50 GMT
References: <680@acornrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael Thompson)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Lines: 19
Keywords: uux, caret, what the hey?

In article <680@acornrc.UUCP> bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) writes:
>Uux seems to treat the caret character '^' as some kind of command
>character (same as '|' ?).  This causes problems when mailing to
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	.
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>Does anyone know why uux handles '^' in this way?  Is there any software
>which uses this "feature"?

	uux doesn't care about `^', `|', or `?', or most any other
character that the shell (or specifically the c-shell in this case, I
would guess) treat as special, the csh uses `^' for history
substitution, try quoting the address.

-- 
Michael A. Thompson, Dept. Math, Stats, & C.S., Dalhousie U., Halifax, N.S.
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