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From: bcphyagi@Twg-S5.uucp (Stephen Walton)
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Subject: Re: tilde in filename
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Date: 11 Sep 90 21:04:31 GMT
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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?

As many others have pointed out, this is a NOT operator.  However, Bruce
asked partly because typing "delete #?~" now deletes ALL files, rather than
just Emacs-type backup files (which end with ~).  The escape character
is an apostrophe (single-quote), so "delete #?'~" will delete all Emacs
backup files.

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Stephen R. Walton, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
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