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- From: wescott@grok67.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Mike.Wescott)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Sending files to SunOS 4.1.1 machines
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.184322.9654@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 18:43:21 GMT
- References: <BtM2Mr.Cx0@uunet.uu.net>
- Organization: "NCR Corp, Columbia, SC"
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- In article <BtM2Mr.Cx0@uunet.uu.net>, ziegast@godzilla.UU.NET (Eric W. Ziegast) writes:
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- |> $ uucp -d -r /archive/tmp/test foo!~/reveive/uunet/fred/
-
- |> According to past experience this is correct and should work. Even
- |> the "Using UUCP and Usenet" tome says this is a correct way to send
- |> a file. The "~" is supposed to expand to the home directory of UUCP
- |> (the PUBDIR) which is /var/spool/uucppublic on Suns. One should be
- |> able to write "test" into the directory specified (after being auto-
- |> magically created).
- |>
- |> We receive reports of failures only from sites with SunOS.
-
- |> Has anyone else noticed this?
-
- One version of HDB uucp had a problem in this area. The ~ was being
- expanded on the local system (by uux). Rather than being deferred for
- uuxqt on the remote system.
-
- --
- -Mike Wescott
- mike.wescott@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM
-