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Re: E/DOS file question
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> On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, Scott Shuchart wrote:
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> > 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 \
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