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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A bug in ARP 1.3?
Message-ID: <3598@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 10 Dec 89 18:09:47 GMT
References: <14752@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett)
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In article <14752@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hunt@spot.Colorado.EDU (HUNT LEE CAMERON) writes:
>has anybody been able to make a file or
>directory called 'a' under ARP 1.3 and consequently tried to delete it?

	Try:		1> delete "a"

	I guess that the ARP delete program thinks "a" is the beginning of
a keyword like "all" or "ask".

	This is a problem inherent in all command-line parsing in which
special keywords are not preceded by some sort of switch character.
For example, try creating a file called "dates" and then listing it:

		1> list dates

"dates" is a special keyword for the "list" program.  Yuck!!!

                                                        Dan

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