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- From: koslowj@math.ksu.edu (Juergen Koslowski)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: minus sign in file names?
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 16:59:23 -0600
- Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University
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- Keywords: batch file parameters and filenames with minus sign
-
- Hello there,
-
- Yesterday I encountered a strange behaviour of MS-DOS 5.0. I tried to write a
- batch file that takes a string as input, adds an extension to it (.tex in my
- case), and then processes the corresponding file further. One of my files is
- called cc-1.tex. When calling the batch file with the argument "cc-1" only the
- "cc" was recognized, and the "-1" was ignored. On the other hand, strings of the
- form "cc0-" is processed correctly, as is a string of the form "cc_1".
-
- Could anybody please shed some light on this strange behaviour? Thanks!
-
- -- J"urgen
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- J"urgen Koslowski | If I don't see you no more in this world
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