Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!xanth!hoptoad!dasys1!jzitt
From: jzitt@dasys1.UUCP (Joe Zitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Funny Characters in filenames?!?!?!?!
Message-ID: <8956@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 89 16:59:03 GMT
References: <56@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Reply-To: jzitt@dasys1.UUCP (Joe Zitt)
Organization: The Big Electric Cat, New York, NY
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In article <56@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu> manager@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Cris Fuhrman, Systems Manager) writes:
>On one of the hard-disk machines here at school, we have some files and 
>directories with funny-characters (smiley faces, hearts, diamonds, etc.) in 
>the file names.  How do I delete these files?  How did they get there?  

My guess at this would be to try the "?" wildcard. For example, you might be
able to kill a file named FOO(thing)BAR.TMP by saying ERASE FOO?BAR.TMP.
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Joe Zitt                                 {sun!hoptoad,cmcl2!phri}!dasys1!jzitt
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