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- Newsgroups: in.pc,comp.os.msdos.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Missing character questions....
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.182428.7542@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <Bu0CD5.5ry@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Sep3.160649.19515@news.nd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:24:28 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- rwilliam@bach.helios.nd.edu (richard williams) writes:
-
- >In article <Bu0CD5.5ry@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> rcbaker@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bob Baker) writes:
- >>While working on converting some VERY old DOS files at work, we've
- >>discovered an interesting dilemma. When we do a directory listing of
- >>the files, we see things like:
- >>
- >>H FRAME TXT 09-01-84 etc., etc.
- >>S H HOUS TXT 09-01-84
- >>.
- >>Our problem comes when we want to copy these files to other disks.
- >>Whatever character the blank space is in the directory listing, it
- >>does not get read in the copy program. We see:
-
- I have gotten around this using NU to go in and manually change the file
- name.
- You might also try using the ? wildcard, multiple times if necessary (instead
- of a single *).
-
- -JTT
-
-