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  1. Article: 14506 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
  2. Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!news-not-for-mail
  3. From: fdc@sesame.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
  5. Subject: Re: Problem with path getting file
  6. Date: 9 Sep 2003 08:57:05 -0400
  7. Organization: Columbia University
  8. Lines: 20
  9. Message-ID: <bjkin1$ncb$1@sesame.cc.columbia.edu>
  10. References: <61105627.0309082215.2dc4461e@posting.google.com>
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  15. Xref: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu comp.protocols.kermit.misc:14506
  16.  
  17. In article <61105627.0309082215.2dc4461e@posting.google.com>,
  18. carlossm <carlos@vanguardiatec.com> wrote:
  19. : Strange path error. I trying to "GET" a file from a kermit server
  20. : with:
  21. : 
  22. : get aaaa.txt g:\xfer\aaaa.txt
  23. : 
  24. : As you can tell the \xfe gets translated into ascii character 254. How
  25. : can I avoid this?
  26. : 
  27. Backslash has a special function in Kermit language, just like it does
  28. in shell scripts.  Use:
  29.  
  30.   get aaaa.txt g:\\xfer\\aaaa.txt
  31.  
  32. or:
  33.  
  34.   get aaaa.txt g:/xfer/aaaa.txt
  35.  
  36. - Frank
  37.