From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 21:56:02 -0500 (EST)
To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Cc: Dave Pearson <davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: ~OD: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2
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I've had wordperfect version 6.0 at work and the braces were
still present in the installation directory.  I was trying 4dos out
but had to remove it from my machine, I was playing nethack and 4dos
messed up and
cost me a game.
On Tue,
25 Feb
1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:

> 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.
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> 


jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>