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From: matt@sapphire.jpl.nasa.gov (matt of ASTD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: file name *
Message-ID: <4069@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 14 Jun 90 20:23:10 GMT
References: <1636@raybed2.msd.ray.com>
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In article <1636@raybed2.msd.ray.com> lah@raybed2.msd.ray.com (LANCE HOLMES) writes:
>Does anyone know what is generating a file named *.
>I have removed it using a dirutil type program and also found it
>to cause me some grief when I tried to use the arp delete command which
>treated it as a wild card and proceeded to delete everything.

Aha!  So I'm not the only one.  At first I thought I had a virus.
I tried to 'more *', 'less *', 'type *', 'z *' and I got hang city.
Finally I tried 'ced *'.  ced didn't hang (probably because it's
so great), but it didn't show anything even though my * listed as
51 bytes.  I renamed * to junk and 'ced junk' and behold I saw
that junk was a message indicating an error because AREXX could not
be found.  Well, I do use VT1002.9b which does use AREXX.  Could
this be some error message?  Does anyone know for sure?
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