Wierd HDB/Permissions problems (again)

J. Eric Townsend erict at flatline.UUCP
Thu Aug 24 00:03:39 AEST 1989


In article <1372 at jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> rich at jolnet.orpk.il.us (Rich Andrews) writes:
>>In article <2328 at flatline.UUCP> erict at flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>>>etc.  From uhnix1, I did:
>>>uuto part0.Z flatline\!erict
>I think the way that you invoked uuto is where your problem is.
>The man page for uuto says uuto {filename} machine!user.
>It mentions nothing about machine\!user or machine/!user.

"\!" is how you type a "!" when you're using /bin/ksh.  The "!"
alone is a command for the shell, so you have to escape it.
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