From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hp-pcd!hp-cvd\!seth Newsgroups: net.general Title: Re: Huh? Backslashes?? - (nf) Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.696 Posted: Wed Feb 23 12:02:06 1983 Received: Thu Feb 24 05:52:33 1983 #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