Rush Strong <rpstrong@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
[snip]
>The caret is used as a character modifier in the command window - it
>allows characters which might be interpreted as commands to be used as
>literals. In parsing "ccli^^^.dbf', the first caret is a command
>character: ignore the command aspect of the following character, which
>is the second caret - the one that gets included in the file name. The
>third caret, like the first, gets stripped as a command, and the '.' is
>treated (like the second caret) as a non-command (literal) character.
Thank you for the explanation.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.
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