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In article <1992Aug30.195150.4459@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG> bruce@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG  
writes:
> pete@othello.dartmouth.edu (Pete Schmitt) writes:
> : Trying to use the uucp command to send a file to another
> : system over a modem, and I keep getting permission denied error, even
> : if the file is set to mode 777.  What am I doing wrong?
> : 
> 
> I believe you'll find that sends from a directory accessable to both uucp
> and the file's owner will work.  Perhaps /usr/spool/uucppublic ?  The mode  
of 
> the directory was likely NOT set to 777 in your testing (and at least an  
execute
> permission to uucp for all above it in the tree-path as specified).
> 

On the contrary, I would bet this is caused by the shell.

I had this exact same problem, and the solution I ended up with was to quote  
the source and target files.  Like so:

uucp "localfile" "remotemachine!...!file"

Best I could figure out, it has to do with the shell assigning some value to  
the "!" character in the address.  (Since I came from the HDB UUCP  
environment to the NeXT, and I had been using 'ksh' prior to the NeXT, the  
"!" having a special meaning to my shell (or UUCP) had not affected me beofre  
- took me a week to figure it out.)

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