Imbed spaces in uucp login sequence?

Andrew Dingwall andrew at root.co.uk
Thu Oct 25 00:51:45 AEST 1990


In article <370 at rick.att.com> ahm at rick.att.com (Andy Meyer) writes:
>
>I need to send a two word command as part of a uucp login sequence.
>How do I prevent the imbedded space from being interpreted as the 
>signal to switch from SEND to EXPECT?
>
>The machine is an AT&T 3B2/400 running Sys V rel 3.2.2.
>Example /usr/lib/uucp/Systems entry:
>oogie Any ACU 1200 5551212 "" \d\r d> "c oogie" ogin: floyd ord: kiddies

Presumably you are running HDB uucp; this should interpret \s as a space
character.

Some versions of uucp understand C octal escape sequences.
On such systems, use \040 for space.

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