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From: wicks@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Mr. Tony Wicks )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP1.3 questions
Summary: rm #?~ is a bad idea under ARP
Keywords: ARP
Message-ID: <2630@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Date: 13 Dec 89 15:17:00 GMT
References: <6417@tank.uchicago.edu> <[25733c9f:2780.1]comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP> <8753@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: wicks@umbc3.umbc.edu.UMBC.EDU (Mr. Tony Wicks (MMA))
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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I almost got caught by this last night.  I was cleaning up, and
decided to remove all of the backup files created by mg2a. I had just
entered rm #?~ when I decided to see just how many files that was, so
I hit ^U and typed list #?~.  Low and behold: I got a listing of my
entire directory.

After I laughed the laugh-of-terror, I readjusted my path so that the 
standard c: comes before alt:arp/c.

I must have missed the sentence in the ARP manual that states that ~
is some special character.  Is there a way to turn this off?  Is this
part of ASH and not part of the arp.library argument processing?

Also, using ARP protect always crashes my system.  Has this been fixed?
If so who do I contact?

Tony Wicks
wicks@umbc3.umbc.edu, wicks@mst1.bal.mmc.com