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To: don@PartsNow.com
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Subject: Re: burned by M$ again! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Aug 1997 15:14:48 PDT."
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> 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.
> 	In future, how do I prevent this or switch space to underscore? Is this
> possible in wu-ftpd?

Access it as you do above:

$ cat "read me.doc"
$ mv "read me.doc" readme.doc

> -- 
>   oooOOO O O O o * * *  *   *   *
>  o     ___       _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_
>  V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ]
> /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....