From:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:09:37 -0500 (EST)
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To:	jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
cc:	Dave Pearson <davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: ~OD: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2
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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:

> The only people likely to use '[' and ']' and other similar
> characters in file names are usually virus writers and others who want
> to put files on people's hard drives that are intended to remain on the 
> hard drive until the next format.

Well, I have yet to come across a file with those characters in
a filename myself, and I've been using 4DOS successfully for 2
years now and it uses the [] chars for wildcards. Wordperfect 5.1
had filenames with "{" and "}" in them, although I hope that
they've abandoned this in newer versions since those characters
would also be nice to use.


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