From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 11 15:45:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05400 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 15:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mackay01.cqit.qld.edu.au (root@cqit.qld.edu.au [203.22.80.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05387 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 15:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carbon.chalmers.com.au (carbon.cqit.qld.edu.au [203.22.80.5]) by mackay01.cqit.qld.edu.au (8.7.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA24496; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:40:31 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <33EF9525.BC81937F@chalmers.com.au> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:41:42 +1000 From: Robert Chalmers Reply-To: robert@chalmers.com.au Organization: chalmers.com.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: don@PartsNow.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: burned by M$ again! X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <33EF8ED8.50E9@PartsNow.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Don Wilde wrote: > Hi, folks ... > One of our wonderful customers sent me a file on my anonymous > ftp > called "read me.doc" from his brainless M$ system. How do I get at it, > > read it, copy it or whatever? I assume I can rm * it, but I need to > see > it first. Should be able to use dowhatever "read me.doc", with the inverted commas. like $cp "read me.doc" read_me.doc or, ftp it to a "95 machine and read it with wordpad or Word. bob > In future, how do I prevent this or switch space to > underscore? Is this > possible in wu-ftpd? > -- > oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * > o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ > ___==_ > V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com > ] > / > o0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo -- http://www.chalmers.com.au Books-New & Secondhand Support Whirled Peas. Agents for CIBTC. Associate of Amazon.com, and Partner Program with iBS. Books about China, books from China. Sheng huo jiu shi dou zheng Business Links in Dalian, and Beijing. Building the China Trade