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Subject: Re: ~OD: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 
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[...]>> Wouldn't THAT be nice!  One problem though.  The characters that
>> are used in extended wildcards wouldn't be available as filename
>> characters.  ie: '[' and ']'  Or are they not allready?  Hmmm.
>
>That's a bloody good point, I didn't think about that. Well, I didn't
>think it thru that much at all, it was more a 'I wonder'.
[...]

Escape 'em.

Unfortunately, we can't use \ as DOS already uses that. We need another 
character that isn't used much... $, perhaps? Internal device names tend to 
have $ in the name, to prevent them being used by accident, so it might make a 
certain amount of sense. However, temporary files tend to use $:

	echo foo > %temp%\$tempzip.$$$

becomes

	echo foo > %temp%\$$tempzip.$$$$$$

Hmmm...


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