Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!hpirs!dennis From: dennis@hpirs.HP.COM (Dennis D. Lee) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: HDB uucp bug: forwarding from remote systemS Message-ID: <4210006@hpirs.HP.COM> Date: 26 Sep 88 16:00:06 GMT References: <4210005@hpirs.HP.COM> Sender: news@super.ORG Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 16 My V.2.1 uucp has the following line of code from uucp.c: (line 233 -238 ) 233 /* source files can have at most one ! */ 234 if (*fwd1 != NULLCHAR) { 235 /* syntax error */ 236 (void) fprintf(stderr, "illegal syntax %s\n", argv[opti nd]); 237 exit(1); 238 } This is what I am talking about, whenever I tried to do uucp a!b!c!/tmp/foo foo I got this error. -dennis