From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GNU Pascal (gpc) 2.1 released
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 19:38:32 +0100
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Hello.

Martin Stromberg wrote:
> 
> Charles Sandmann (sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu) wrote:
> : > 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.
> 
> Right. It looks like DJGPP need an "rm_pkg" command that verifies the
> file exists and do "rm -f @file" internally.
[snip]

Try using zippo. It can do this. See:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/

Regards,

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]