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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org (John Meissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: file name *
Message-ID: <533@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 15 Jun 90 16:59:34 GMT
References: <1636@raybed2.msd.ray.com> <4069@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <2707@ektools.UUCP>
Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS), Beaverton, OR
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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 *.


In case you haven't figured out the obvious, the filename occurs when the program
attempts to open the console to print a message, and uses the AmigaDOS-endorsed
method of openning "*", which is defined to be the console. Of course, under
Workbench there is no console, and so a disk file in the current directory
is created with that name instead.
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