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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:20:39 -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote:

> The main reason is that ? is a (for all intents and purposes) a reserved
> shell character and typing:
> 
> foo -\?

Right, that makes sense, I suppose.  I must admit that I've never been
bitten by this myself, but I suppose it'd be problematic if one had a
file in the working directory whose name was composed of two characters,
the first of which was a dash.

Talk about edge cases. :-)

But I hear you.  It was a bit presumptuous to call the way I do things
"the UNIX way" just because I can't remember who taught it to me. :-)

Later,
Sheldon.


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