cu - cant seem to get ~%take working

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Fri Nov 2 00:47:55 AEST 1990


In article <272F1280.18291 at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs3ea3aq at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Kerr        PM) writes:
>
>I am trying to transfer a file from school to my home, ~%put works fine
>but when I try and use ~%take <file> I get the following message
>stty -echo; if test -r <file>; then (echo '~>':<file>; cat <file>;echo '~>');
>else echo cant\'t open: <file>; fi; stty echo
>badly placed ()'s

The problem is that your loging shell on the foreign system (where you want to 
take the data from) is the C shell.  start up a borne/korn shell before you
attempt the ~%take.

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