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From: ejablow@dasys1.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Funny Characters in filenames?!?!?!?!
Message-ID: <8988@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 04:13:22 GMT
References: <56@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu> <1103@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: ejablow@dasys1.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow)
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In article <1103@blake.acs.washington.edu> djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) writes:
>I ran across a problem like this where an application program and a
>new user conspired to create file names with blanks embedded within.

For example, True Basic (TM Addison-Wesley) will do this.  I can
confirm that using the ? and * wildcard characters will let you access
the files through MS-DOS.  A conventional trick is to use ALT-255 to
include that character in a file name to keep people from accessing
it.

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