bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) (03/28/88)
Uux seems to treat the caret character '^' as some kind of command
character (same as '|' ?). This causes problems when mailing to
addresses which contain this character, for example
Owner-Climbing^.pa@Xerox.COM. (Xerox's distribution lists seem to have
'^' in their names.)
Does anyone know why uux handles '^' in this way? Is there any software
which uses this "feature"?
(Sendmail likes to translate '^' into '!'. So I disabled that
translation in sendmail.cf, and #ifdef-ed out the relevant code in uux,
only to have our next uucp neighbor reject mail to the above-mentioned
address. Sigh.)
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Arpanet: bob%acornrc.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.govwisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) (03/28/88)
For hysterical reasons, the Bourne shell considers a caret identical to a pipe, and with the same function. ..b
ken@usceast.UUCP (Ken Sallenger) (03/29/88)
In article <8627@eddie.MIT.EDU> wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
=>For hysterical reasons,
A Model 33 Teletype (yes, I have one! ;-) doesn't have a `|' on the
keyboard.
=> the Bourne shell considers a caret identical
=>to a pipe, and with the same function.
So, the next time you have to quote a grep pattern, you'll know why.
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ken@cs.scarolina.edu (CSNET)thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael Thompson) (03/30/88)
In article <680@acornrc.UUCP> bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) writes: >Uux seems to treat the caret character '^' as some kind of command >character (same as '|' ?). This causes problems when mailing to . . . >Does anyone know why uux handles '^' in this way? Is there any software >which uses this "feature"? uux doesn't care about `^', `|', or `?', or most any other character that the shell (or specifically the c-shell in this case, I would guess) treat as special, the csh uses `^' for history substitution, try quoting the address. -- Michael A. Thompson, Dept. Math, Stats, & C.S., Dalhousie U., Halifax, N.S. thompson@dalcs.uucp From Bitnet or Uucp thompson@cs.dal.cdn From Bitnet or Cdn thompson%dalcs.uucp@uunet.uu.net From Arpa
bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) (03/31/88)
In article <2822@dalcs.UUCP>, thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael Thompson) writes: > uux doesn't care about `^', `|', or `?', or most any other > character that the shell (or specifically the c-shell in this case, I > would guess) treat as special, the csh uses `^' for history > substitution, try quoting the address. Yes it does. A snippet of source from 4.3bsd uux.c: if (prm[0] == '|' || prm[0] == '^') { if (cmdp != cmd) APPCMD(prm); continue; } -- Bob Weissman Internet: bob@acornrc.uucp UUCP: ...!{ ames | decwrl | oliveb | apple }!acornrc!bob Arpanet: bob%acornrc.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov