Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/16/18:39:19
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>I can think of several characters right of the top of my head to use -
>just try looking along the numbers at the top of your keyboard :)
>ie !,@,#,%,^,&,*
>I think the others are a bit more common, though. Personally, I like *
>best.
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I can see a few problems when using *...
> XDEL *.* (return)
(computer waits for input)
DIR /S (return)
(computer executes: XDEL *.*DIR /S, and happily deletes all files in
all subdirectories)
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