W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Keith Petersen) (03/04/85)
Whenever I try to retrive POKE&GO1.DOC from micro:<cpm.z3new>
I get "File not accessable. Invalid character in filename."
The ampersand???
Peter, you hit the nail right on the head. Some characters are
reserved under the TOPS-20 operating system we use here at SIMTEL20.
The solution is to include a Control-V just ahead of such characters
when you tell FTP what file you want. In this case it would be:
MICRO:<CPM.Z3NEW>POKE^V&GO1.DOC
(where the ^V is a control-V, of course). The control-V is a "quote
next character" command.
--Keith