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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