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Received: from arthur.cs.purdue.edu (arthur.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.1]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA12990 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 16:57:44 -0700 Received: from lab11.cs.purdue.edu (huntercr@lab11.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.11.111]) by arthur.cs.purdue.edu (8.6.10/PURDUE_CS-1.3) with ESMTP id <SAA04634>; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 18:33:02 -0500 Received: (huntercr@localhost) by lab11.cs.purdue.edu (8.6.10/PURDUE_CS-1.3) id <SAA01604>; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 18:32:59 -0500 From: huntercr@cs.purdue.edu (Charles Hunter) Message-Id: <199506232332.SAA01604@lab11.cs.purdue.edu> Subject: Re: E/DOS file question To: vzvz@netcom.com (Philip Zeyliger), executor@nacm.com (Executor mailing list) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 18:32:58 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950623102334.28487C-100000@netcom7> from "Philip Zeyliger" at Jun 23, 95 10:27:26 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1200 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > > On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, Scott Shuchart wrote: > > > 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 \ -- Charles Hunter > -- > ,'^\ _ _ _ _ _ ,-----------------------------. > ; :.\ Philip Zeyliger | |/// \| U ||| |On all Internet Chess Servers| > \ \ ~ vzvz@netcom.com | (( o ) ||o\ /) telnet ics.onenet.net 5000 | > [___] |_|\\\_/|_n_||_/ '-----------------------------' >