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| 25 new of 263 responses total. |
otter
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response 25 of 263:
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Jan 3 10:40 UTC 1998 |
I did it with my mind. Just a subtle reminder to you of my awesome power. 8^}
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arianna
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response 26 of 263:
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Jan 3 23:40 UTC 1998 |
*rotfl*
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gibson
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response 27 of 263:
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Jan 5 05:53 UTC 1998 |
rotfl? I haven't figured this one out. how about a hint.
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mcnally
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response 28 of 263:
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Jan 5 05:59 UTC 1998 |
Rolling on the floor laughing..
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srw
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response 29 of 263:
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Jan 5 22:16 UTC 1998 |
That was too big of a hint.
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gibson
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response 30 of 263:
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Jan 6 00:21 UTC 1998 |
hold on i've almost got it. nope, it slipped by.
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orinoco
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response 31 of 263:
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Jan 6 03:58 UTC 1998 |
Would you like Cliff Notes?
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cmcgee
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response 32 of 263:
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Jan 6 04:17 UTC 1998 |
Well, Ive been trying to log in on 4931, but after it rang 10 times (60 sec),
my software decided there wasnt going to be a carrier. It did sound like it
was searching up the ladder after every 3rd ring.
Im now logged in on 3000.
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scott
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response 33 of 263:
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Jan 6 12:10 UTC 1998 |
Why 4931?
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valerie
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response 34 of 263:
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Jan 6 18:54 UTC 1998 |
This response has been erased.
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davel
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response 35 of 263:
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Jan 6 21:25 UTC 1998 |
Um, Valerie, she *said* she's in on -3000.
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orinoco
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response 36 of 263:
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Jan 6 21:50 UTC 1998 |
(Is there anything special about -4931? I know about -3000 and -5041, but
I didn't even know that number existed.)
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scott
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response 37 of 263:
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Jan 6 23:57 UTC 1998 |
It's usually been the last number in the slow group, right before the first
fast modems (no longer true, though).
I'm getting the impression that the last slow modem, ttyhc, has a modem that
is not With The Program right now.
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gibson
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response 38 of 263:
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Jan 7 04:03 UTC 1998 |
Re #31. I wont know til I meet him.
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rcurl
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response 39 of 263:
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Jan 7 06:15 UTC 1998 |
I ftp'd a binary file I named MOU.doc to grex and it showed up as such
in my directory, but I could not access it ("file does not exist"). I
mv'd it as MOU.* to MOUf.doc, and I could access that. What/why/when was
a hidden character appended to the file name, and is there a way to
prevent this?
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mcnally
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response 40 of 263:
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Jan 7 07:42 UTC 1998 |
Apparently there was a non-printing character (or a non-visible one,
like a space) in the latter portion of the filename. My guess is that
either it was messed up on the system from which you got it and the ftp
client used the same name as on the origin system or you used a command
like "get file.orig MOU.doc<garble>"
There's not really any way to prevent that -- most Unix programs will
cheerfully create files with all sorts of inconvenient characters in
them if you inadvertently tell them to do so. Pity the poor newbie who
creates a file whose name starts with a "-"..
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bmoran
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response 41 of 263:
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Jan 7 15:15 UTC 1998 |
Raises hand sheepshly. I did just that, quite a while ago. Can't figure
out how to delete it. Any Ideas?
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rcurl
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response 42 of 263:
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Jan 7 17:24 UTC 1998 |
I created the file and ftp'd it from my Mac using Fetch, and named the
file in the Fetch dialog before transmission. I've done this many times
and it always worked before, but this problem, yesterday, was repeatable.
Is there any way to "see" that garble, even if it is a space?
Re #41: wouldn't "rm *<name> delete it?
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remmers
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response 43 of 263:
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Jan 7 21:52 UTC 1998 |
Nope, that won't work. Try: rm ./<name>
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mdw
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response 44 of 263:
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Jan 8 00:52 UTC 1998 |
!ls | cat -e
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davel
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response 45 of 263:
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Jan 8 03:34 UTC 1998 |
Or ls -b
(This will display nonprintable characters as a backslash followed by a
3-digit octal value.)
Rane, the reason you have to do what John said, not just use rm by itself,
is that rm will take that leading dash as indicating that the rest of it is
an option.
Actually, though, I think that if you put any other filename (not beginning
with "-", & not necessarily the name of an actual, existent file) after the
rm & before your filename, it probably would work. Or is rm one of those
dinosaurs that allows options anywhere on the line?
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valerie
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response 46 of 263:
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Jan 8 04:56 UTC 1998 |
This response has been erased.
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rcurl
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response 47 of 263:
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Jan 8 08:26 UTC 1998 |
Re #46 re uploads: I am aware of the problems created by the free format
Mac filenames, which I why I uploaded the file as MOU.doc. I did not expect
that to cause a problem. (I will have to study the other options for this
and other 'difficult' files.)
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bmoran
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response 48 of 263:
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Jan 8 14:58 UTC 1998 |
Thank you, John. The ./ worked.
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orinoco
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response 49 of 263:
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Jan 9 00:30 UTC 1998 |
For that matter, how do I delete a filename with spaces in it?
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