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- 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
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- >
- > 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:
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- %file.xxx
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- del ?fi*.*
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- under OS/2 you can place quotes around it to escape the character like
- UNIX's use of \
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- -- Charles Hunter
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