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From: gilham@polya.Stanford.EDU (Fred Gilham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP1.3 bug
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Date: 23 Apr 89 16:02:22 GMT
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In article <17528@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>Since it appears so many are having the same problem for which I developed a
>solution several months ago, enclosed is a shar containing my "purge" program.
>
(over 2k of text and code omitted)

Or you can do the following:

    alias purge delete *'~

which accomplishes a less general version of the same thing.
-Fred Gilham