Wierd HDB/Permissions problems (again)

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <2352 at flatline.UUCP> erict at flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:

>>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.

Perhaps you mean csh.  Typing ! at ksh gives:
 /bin/ksh: !:  not found

Any of the common shells would remove the \ before uuto sees it, though.

Les Mikesell