Re: IFS gotcha - potential disaster

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Pete

In my original post I said I got worried, but it wasn't because of the 
TextPad behavior - as you say, as designed. But I was worried about how to 
get rid of this thing. The Windows file system (and DOS, and Unix-type, as 
in QShell) will respond to a wildcard request with everything that matches, 
so deleting this thing as is had the possible painful side-effects. 
Fortunately, I found a way to do it, and other posts have had great ideas 
for the future.

Thanks
Vern

At 06:55 PM 12/15/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> At 11:50 12/15/2003, Scott Klement wrote:
>
> > > Also, I opened that file, in Windows, with TextPad. What I got was the
> > > other 5 files in the root. This is when I got worried.
> >
> > That's bizarre.  Windows Explorer does not, as far as I know, use
> > wildcards.  This implies that NetServer interprets wildcards when Windows
> > does not intend it to.
>
> I think that's just Textpad. If you feed Textpad a "generic" file name, it 
> attempts to open all files that match it, and as they say at help-desk, 
> it's working as designed.
>
>
> Pete Hall
> pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.pbhall.us/