Hello Wilfred,

>> The problem seems to be the "!*" which is supposed to
tell BBBS to send the
>> message as Crash/Direct. The "!*" works fine if the
netmail is written
>> manually but not when used in a command line.

> It's linux. So a * inside an option is expanded to matching filenames by the
> shell. So write it inside single quotes like: '!*1:1/21' and you ar probably
> ok...

Yeah, in the back of my mind I was thinking that either the "!"
or the "*" were being used or acted upon beyond what was
intended. Thanks for the confirmation of what I had suspected.


Jeff


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