Re: Problem with '/' in archieve name

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>> 1) What systems have problems with '/', and are there any other special
>> characters that are a problem?
>
>Many UNIX systems have trouble with a '/' character in a file name,
>as the '/' is used (by default) as the separator for directories
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>john (jmoulder@its.mcw.edu)

The slashes in the archive-name *are* directory separators. In your
example, "faq/part1" and "faq/part2", both part1 and part2 are in the
directory "faq" on the archive server.

To retrieve these files from the rtfm archive, just cd to the proper
directory, in your case:

cd /pub/usenet/news.answers/powerlines-cancer-FAQ

and retrieve the files Part1 and Part2 that are there:

get Part1
get Part2

Hope this helps.

GB!

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