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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/



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