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Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 06:07:15 GMT
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Mr. Gus <mrgus AT zombie DOT net> wrote in message
news:82a08t1161b AT enews4 DOT newsguy DOT com...
[snip]
> Pointless for the guy making the game but still sort of cute, you can
> use the 255 character (hold down ALT and hit 2, 5, 5) in files from
> the command line. I've had loads of fun putting friends' important
> files in nested directories consising of different amounts of ascii 255.
[snip]

Some Tape Backup programs will not back-up files with a 255 in their filename.