cu - cant seem to get ~%take working

Max Heffler max at lgc.com
Sat Nov 3 10:38:46 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
>stty -echo; if test -r <file>; then (echo '~>':<file>; cat <file>;echo '~>');else 

When I have had this problem, it was an interaction problem with the C shell.
Try using the Bourne shell just before this operation.  It works for me...
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