[net.general] Huh? Backslashes??

alb (02/19/83)

Take a look at hp-pcd.688 and hp-pcd.689 -- The addresses are:
...!hp-pcd!kirk\!russ
The articles are from notesfiles, most probably explaining why
the address doesn't match the Article-I.D. (or it may just be
a very poor attempt at forgery), but why are the backslashes
in there?  I have not tried responding back along that path.

seth (02/23/83)

#R:alice:-151400:hp-cvd:5500004:000:630
hp-cvd!seth    Feb 22 14:52:00 1983


	Take a look at hp-pcd.688 and hp-pcd.689 -- The addresses are:
	...!hp-pcd!kirk\!russ
	The articles are from notesfiles, most probably explaining why
	the address doesn't match the Article-I.D. (or it may just be
	a very poor attempt at forgery), but why are the backslashes
	in there?  I have not tried responding back along that path.
	----------

The articles are from notesfiles, which we have run here.
The backslashes are there because of csh;
csh tries to intrepret backslashes in its history list.  To keep
csh from doing this the exclamations are quoted using backslash.

--Seth Alford
HP Corvallis Division
hp-cvd!seth