Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 09:30:35 04/07/00
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On April 07, 2000 at 03:58:55, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 IMO it is that windoze can't manage your files, and Leonids program did nothing illegal or harmful (I also disliked your title here). According to DOS documentation ascii 255 are perfectly OK in file names. Crappy OS, that's all. -Andrew-
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