From: dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk
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Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 
In-Reply-To: chambersb@juno.com's message of Sun, 16 Feb 97 16:03:31 -0500.
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[...]
>I can think of several characters right of the top of my head to use -
>just try looking along the numbers at the top of your keyboard :)
>ie !,@,#,%,^,&,*
>I think the others are a bit more common, though.  Personally, I like *
>best.
[...]

I can see a few problems when using *...

> XDEL *.* (return)
	(computer waits for input)
DIR /S (return)
	(computer executes: XDEL *.*DIR /S, and happily deletes all files in
	all subdirectories)


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