From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: GNU Pascal (gpc) 2.1 released
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:18:39 CDT
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> Ok. But in the case of rm there isn't a legit command-line argument
> starting with @, is there?

Sure there is.  try touch @foo, or rm @foo.  It's a legal file name.