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From: John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>
To: "'Heribert Dahms'" <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>,
        John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>,
        "'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>,
        Thomas DOT Wolff AT icn DOT siemens DOT de, benny AT crocodial DOT de,
        "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin AT hotpop DOT com>
Subject: RE: 3 bugs
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:35:54 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heribert Dahms [mailto:heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de]
> 
> since ? ist the wildcard for a single character, try
> to protect it with a backslash escape or quote all.

Yes, that works much better:

   rm '//?/d:/dir1/dir2/x.'   or
   rm '\\?\d:\dir1\dir2\x.'

-- John


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