Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!assari.tut.fi!mt87692 From: mt87692@lehtori.tut.fi (Tsokkinen Mikko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: tilde in filename Message-ID: Date: 10 Sep 90 07:48:11 GMT References: <3166@orbit.cts.com> Sender: news@funet.fi (#News ) Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: bga@pnet51.orb.mn.org's message of 7 Sep 90 06:05:02 GMT In article <3166@orbit.cts.com> bga@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht) writes: > What does the tilde (~) mean in an amigados 2.0 filename? I couldn't file any > mention of it in the Using the System Software Manual. It seems to have some > sort of wild-card properties (for example, dir ~ seems to be equivalent to dir > all, and rm #?~ would have deleted a lot more files if I hadn't done a break). > If it does have special meaning, where is it documented? ~ is NOT operator and it's documented at least in ARP1.3 manuals. MIT -- Mikko "Assembler rules OK!" Tsokkinen Internet mt87692@tut.fi : UUCP tut!mt87692 : Bitnet mt87692@fintut