Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 00:58:55 04/07/00
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On April 06, 2000 at 23:20:54, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >>2) It takes special effort to type in ASCII 255's under DOS. I don't see why >>anybody would want to do this. Plus, how is somebody supposed to know that the >>filename ends in ASCII 255's? >Or try the * or ? wildcards, e.g. My first tries would be DEL *NAME.* and DEL >NAME*.* which probably would have taken care of your problem. If I only had DOS, I would have tried wildcards immediately too. But here was my situation: I tried to manipulate the file with Windows and I just got errors. Then I tried in DOS and got similar errors. I figured DOS was just confirming the fact that my file system was messed up; it didn't occur to me that DOS wildcards might be able to accomplish something that Windows could not. >You mentioned a lot of reasons justifying the title _after_ learning more. Don't >you think you were jumping to conclusions? A title like "Problem with Leonid's Not really. I still contend that his program messed up my hard drive, although it's fixed now. -Tom
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