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From: Erik@cup.portal.com (Erik - Dufek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: An MS-DOS Fright
Message-ID: <15557@cup.portal.com>
Date: 8 Mar 89 12:07:13 GMT
References: <5826@homxc.ATT.COM>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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In article <5826@homxc.ATT.COM> gauss@homxc.ATT.COM (E.GAUSS) writes:
>finger strays to the next key and you type
>               del  */wrk
>instead of
>               del  *.wrk
>MS-DOS apparently deletes all files except those with an extension of .wrk!

I tried this and it wouldn't work for me.  I thought it would be handy 
instead of using a program called DELBUT.  What conditions do you have?  
What version of DOS, what machine, do you have a TSR aliasing program?

Has anyone else been able to duplicate this?

Erik Dufek       <erik@cup.portal.com>