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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: First Post
- Message-ID: <2crY03GO5e4p00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 21:06:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.035734.7594@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1992Aug14.090928.2677@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
- Lines: 33
- Approved: YEARGH
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- In article <1992Aug14.090928.2677@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
- >apollo@ee.ualberta.ca (Apollo Wong) writes:
- >>ObHack: Use Emacs to patch the directory so that filenames with character '&'
- >> in it can be moved.
- >
- >ObFaq: Use the backslash, Luke!
-
- NO NO NO GOD DAMN IT NO!!!
-
- PLEASE DO NOT START ** YET ANOTHER ** HUGE, UNDYING THREAD ON "WHAT IS THE
- BEST WAY TO REMOVE FILES WITH STRANGE NAMES!" I'VE SEEN THIS STUPID THREAD
- SO MANY TIMES I'M READY TO HURL MY GUTS ALL OVER THE UNIX FILE SYSTEM!!
-
- YOU CAN USE A BACKSLASH! YOU CAN USE RM -i * ! YOU CAN RUN FSDB ON THE
- FILE SYSTEM! YOU CAN USE EMACS! YOU CAN USE A C PROGRAM WITH THE "UNLINK"
- SYSTEM CALL! YOU CAN WRITE YOUR OWN SHELL! YOU CAN REAM YOURSELF WITH THE
- BUSINESS END OF A PLUMBER'S HELPER! I DON'T CARE!! JUST DON'T POST IT
- ANYMORE!! I CAN'T TAKE IT!!
-
- AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGHHH!
-
- (hurl)
- (splash)
- >yuck!<
-
- OKAY, I FEEL BETTER NOW, BUT I'M STILL GOING TO YELL! GRRRRRRRR!
-
- ObHack: writing a program to allow bang-paths to be specified under csh
- 8-]
-
- --
- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
-