Date   : Sun, 03 Mar 1985 22:15:00 MST (Sun)
From   : Keith Petersen <W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
Subject: poke&go1.doc

    Whenever I try to retrive POKE&GO1.DOC from micro:<cpm.z3new>
    I get "File not accessable. Invalid character in filename."
    The ampersand???

Peter, you hit the nail right on the head.  Some characters are
reserved under the TOPS-20 operating system we use here at SIMTEL20.
The solution is to include a Control-V just ahead of such characters
when you tell FTP what file you want.  In this case it would be:

MICRO:<CPM.Z3NEW>POKE^V&GO1.DOC

(where the ^V is a control-V, of course).  The control-V is a "quote
next character" command.

--Keith