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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
Message-ID: <9004@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Dec 89 16:24:14 GMT
References: <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <245@estinc.UUCP> <14095@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <14095@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>In article <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:
>>This may be a previously discovered/cured problem, but I need

The single quote character is the escape character for AmigaDOS
wildcards.

So to delete a file called ?

just use

delete '?

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