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From: drues@cs.iastate.edu (Michael E. Drues)
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Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
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Date: 15 Dec 89 01:16:21 GMT
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w-edwinh@microsoft.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets) writes:
>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

>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."

Also, you can use a period `.' for the current dir (like UNIX), i.e.,

	> cp df1:* .

to do the same thing.  A minor observation, since ARP is so simialr to
UNIX, why use " ' " to turn off a reserved character instead of a 
" / " like in UNIX?  

Mike

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