From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:09:37 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca To: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com cc: Dave Pearson , opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: ~OD: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote: > The only people likely to use '[' and ']' and other similar > characters in file names are usually virus writers and others who want > to put files on people's hard drives that are intended to remain on the > hard drive until the next format. Well, I have yet to come across a file with those characters in a filename myself, and I've been using 4DOS successfully for 2 years now and it uses the [] chars for wildcards. Wordperfect 5.1 had filenames with "{" and "}" in them, although I hope that they've abandoned this in newer versions since those characters would also be nice to use. Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed. My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca URL of the day: http://www.digital.com