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From: w-edwinh@microsoft.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
Message-ID: <9531@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 19:11:08 GMT
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Reply-To: w-edwinh@microsoft.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets)
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bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:
>I'm using ARP 1.3 :-) and somehow, I managed to create a file
>on my harddrive called *.  Major oops.  You can't say "delete *"
>because ARP kicks in an deletes the entire directory.  You can't

I believe ARP includes an escape character mechanism. If you do:

delete `*   

The single backquote will escape the wildcard that follows it. This 
should work for # and ? as well.

Another neat thing about ARP wildcards:

You can use % as the empty file name, in leiu of "". Thus, you can say:

cp df1:* %

to mean "copy everything in the root of df1: to the current directory."

Gotta love it.

Edwin
Reading legalese mush can turn your brain to guacamole. - RKMs A&I