help with uucp needed

[Steven R Fordyce]

In article <1990Dec28.190803.19672 at watdragon.waterloo.edu> pacolley at violet.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Colley) writes:
>In article <88 at gdx.UUCP> jay at gdx.UUCP (Jay A. Snyder) writes:
>>
>>$ uucp wa3wbu!eds1!psuvax1!rutgers!uunet!rayssd!anomaly!/usr/spool/uucppublic/archives/egrep.tar.Z ~uucp
>>
>>yeilds:
>>
>>illegal  syntax wa3wbu!eds1!psuvax1!rutgers!uunet!rayssd!anomaly!/usr/spool/uucppublic/archives/egrep.tar.Z
>>
>>How do I get this file via uucp w/o a direct connection to anomaly?

This may be obvious, but if you are using csh (I don't know about the other
shells), you have to escape the `!' and `~' because these have meaning to
the shell and will be interpreted.  Try this line:

uucp wa3wbu\!eds1\!psuvax1\!rutgers\!uunet\!rayssd\!anomaly\!\~/archives/egrep.tar.Z \~egrep.tar.Z

Someone else said you can have so many machines in the from path . . . I
have no idea: I've never tried to go more than one machine.

Steven R. Fordyce