I tried creating some files with "^^^" in them. VFP does not
mind them at all AFAICS. The DOS window commands give me grief over
them. For example,
ccli^^^.dbf
will not be recognised as existing if I enter the command
dir ccli^^^.dbf
of the form c???^^^. I get "File not found". If I try
del ccli^^^.dbf
the error is the
Could Not Find C:\cbs2dev\ccli^.dbf
Note that there is only one caret in the error message.
echo hello>ccli^^^.dbf
creates a file
ccli^.dbf
and deleting it with
del ccli^.dbf
does not delete it, but does delete
ccli.dbf
! (Dangerous!)
What is up with these filenames? "^" is not reserved AFAIK.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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