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From: Bridgeter.Kannoner@f20.n3321.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bridgeter Kannoner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Funny Characters in filenames?!?!?!?!
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Date: 14 Mar 89 10:44:00 GMT
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 > From: bobc@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Bob Calbridge)
 > Date: 12 Mar 89 17:24:35 GMT
 > Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
 > Message-ID: <7519@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
 > Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
 >
 >
 >  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?
 >
 >
 > How about using the alt key?  For the practice, from your DOS prompt
 > hold down
 > the ALT key and enter some digits from 0 to 255 then release the ALT
 > key.  You
 > will see the extended ASCII representation of that value.  For
 > example, if you
 > hold the ALT and enter "1" (without quotes) then release the ALT key
 > you will
 > get a smiley face.   Try this for numbers greater than 127 to see
 > some of the
 > graphics characters.  I've used this trick for the fun of it and some
 > software
 > companies apparently use it to keep some files from being deleted.
 > If the file
 > name has a decimal 255 embedded in it, it is still recognized as a
 > valid ASCII
 > character by DOS.  However, the character prints out as a blank,
 > meaning that
 > you have to do something like type in the beginning of the file name
 > then hold
 > the ALT key while entering "255" then hit your return.
 > BTW______I should have mentioned that this is only possible using the
 > numeric
 > keypad, NOT the number keys on the QWERTY keyboard.
 >
 > Bob
 >
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 >




junk...just testing


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