Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/16/11:36:15
[...]>> Wouldn't THAT be nice! One problem though. The characters that
>> are used in extended wildcards wouldn't be available as filename
>> characters. ie: '[' and ']' Or are they not allready? Hmmm.
>
>That's a bloody good point, I didn't think about that. Well, I didn't
>think it thru that much at all, it was more a 'I wonder'.
[...]
Escape 'em.
Unfortunately, we can't use \ as DOS already uses that. We need another
character that isn't used much... $, perhaps? Internal device names tend to
have $ in the name, to prevent them being used by accident, so it might make a
certain amount of sense. However, temporary files tend to use $:
echo foo > %temp%\$tempzip.$$$
becomes
echo foo > %temp%\$$tempzip.$$$$$$
Hmmm...
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