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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: file name *
Message-ID: <563@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 10 Jul 90 16:51:00 GMT
References: <1636@raybed2.msd.ray.com>
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 *.

Most likely it is created by a program run from the Workbench, probably
a game. A CLI-based program can open a file-handle to the console by
specifying a file name "*". However, under Workbench there is no console,
and it probably results in a file by that name being created in the
current directory. Probably whatever is doing it is trying to print a
message on the console. Next time try typing the contents before deleting
it.

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