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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 21 Jan 1999.
Re: CHALLENGE: Best ascii-art filename

Re: CHALLENGE: Best ascii-art filename

> I don't know about any other OSs, but DOS and Windoze won't let you have a
> filename with a * cos it uses it as a wildcard character.

Commodore DOS, and Unix both have this feature. I'd say it's common to all
OS's.

The ? mark on the oother hand, can be putinto a Unix filename with some
trickery, I think I've received one or two files from friends with ? is the
name.

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Subject: Re: CHALLENGE: Best ascii-art filename
Date: 1999/01/21
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