Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!acornrc!bob
From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Problem with caret ('^') in addresses with uux
Message-ID: <683@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 16:30:02 GMT
References: <680@acornrc.UUCP> <2822@dalcs.UUCP>
Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
Lines: 19
Keywords: uux, caret, what the hey?

In article <2822@dalcs.UUCP>, thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael Thompson) writes:
> 	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.

Yes it does.  A snippet of source from 4.3bsd uux.c:

		if (prm[0] == '|' || prm[0] == '^') {
			if (cmdp != cmd)
				APPCMD(prm);
			continue;
		}

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