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Aucbvax.4202 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sat Oct 3 19:54:23 1981 Re: Carat in Path Names >From MathStat.jmrubin@Berkeley Sat Oct 3 02:58:56 1981 This refers to Steven Bellovin's message about /etc/delivermail's mapping '^' into '!' for the benefit of csh-ers. I doubt it's for us because ^ is also a csh special symbol, connected with history. % helppz helppz: not found % ^ppz^p^ help .....(help command executed here)

(Actually, '!' and '^' are only the default csh history characters-- if you % set histchars = ",#" they would become ',' and '#', respectively.) Joel Rubin

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