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Fri Oct  2 02:30:12 1981
Re:  Carat in Path Names
>From decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley Fri Oct  2 02:26:18 1981
In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin

Berkeley mail permits mapping any network character into any other.  As
distributed, /etc/delivermail will map '^' into '!'.  This is presumably
for the benefit of csh-ers, since '!' is exceedingly special to it, whereas
'^' is not.  (Speaking of which:  does anyone know any reason not to yank
'^' as an alternate pipe symbol from the Bourne shell?)

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