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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Subject: Re: First Post
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.224511.2949@menudo.uh.edu>
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- Organization: University of Houston
- References: <2crY03GO5e4p00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:45:11 GMT
- Approved: me
- Lines: 48
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- In article <2crY03GO5e4p00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy
- McFadden) writes:
- =>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-]
- =>
-
- Er, why not use the backslash????? :-)
-
- =>--
- =>fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- =>[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
-
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