From:	Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: bash
Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 1997 11:18:50 +0200
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Jim Chapman wrote:
> 
> rm *. It removed files ffffff01 to ffffff14. I executed the command

Please make sure, that you are using rm from the DJGPP package
fileutils!!! You can test it with

rm --version

If it is any other rm.exe (not a DJGPP program) it does not know
about the long commandlines and a short computation gives you
the reason for deleting only the first 14 files:

count_of_file * (length_filename+one_space)
     14       * (       8       +   1     ) = 126

which is the maximum allowed commandline length for 
non-DJGPP programs (under raw DOS).

Robert
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