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From: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Funny Characters in filenames?!?!?!?!
Message-ID: <1103@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 89 23:41:47 GMT
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Reply-To: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
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I ran across a problem like this where an application program and a
new user conspired to create file names with blanks embedded within.

Luckily, the first character of each file name was a standard alphanumeric.
I renamed files I wanted to keep, and deleted the obnoxious files using the
first character of their filenames, as in DEL G*.*

Nothing fancy, but it worked!


Dick O'Connor
Washington Department of Fisheries
Olympia, Washington  98504
Internet Mail: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu
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