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Re: E/DOS file question



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> On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, Scott Shuchart wrote:
> 
> > 	Does anyone else wish that ARDI had chosen a different convention 
> > for resource-fork naming?  It's annoying to have a file and its resource not 
> > in adjacent alphabetical order.
> Actually yes!  I wanted to delete all files starting with % 
> and am having problems.  DOS doesn't want to delete a file with a %.
> It means like a space to it.  del %*.* means *.*  Weird!  Now I'm going
> to have to enter Linux and do it the normal way.  (Linux is the only
> way I managed to delete an OS/2 garbage file.  Linux is cool:-)
> > 	(You can tell by the inconsequential nature of my gripes how much 
> > I like Executor.)
> Me too!
> > 
> 	Philip
> 
Um.. you can delete it by using ?  as in:

%file.xxx

del ?fi*.*

under OS/2 you can place quotes around it to escape the character like 
UNIX's  use of \

			-- Charles Hunter


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