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From: tfabian@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Fabian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: re: DIR | more
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.010146.28978@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Mar 90 01:01:46 GMT
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Reply-To: tfabian@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Fabian)
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In article <2165@orbit.cts.com> cheangkk@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Pitt Cheang) writes:
>When I tyied to dir the root directory of my hard disk , floppy disk with the
>more , I always got two strange file name with 0 byte, the file name contains
>mostly number with 8 characters long, no extention name.
> 
>When I check this command " dir | more " or " dir/w | more " on my firends
>computer, it appear the same thing. I am using PC-DOS 3.3 , my friend is using
>MS-DOS 3.3. Moreover, those strange file name are always change, every time
>you try you got a different name.
>
>So what is this file name do ?
>
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when you run the DIR command through the MORE pipe utility, that
utility creates a temporary file which it then displays.. but at the time 
of the listing of the directory, that temporary file is empty, so it only
shows up as zero bytes... it's deleted when the MORE pipe finishes.. 
names vary depending on the time it runs...



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Thanks,    Ted Fabian   NASA Lewis Research Center
           tpfabian@nasamail.nasa.gov      *my opinions 
           tfabian@mars.lerc.nasa.gov      *are my own..
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Thanks,    Ted Fabian   NASA Lewis Research Center
           tpfabian@nasamail.nasa.gov      *my opinions 
           tfabian@mars.lerc.nasa.gov      *are my own..