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  1. 11-30-2003, 04:17 PM #1
    MetroStars
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    I have always wanted 2 know why these Characters not r allowed

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  3. 11-30-2003, 04:20 PM Software & Hardware   -   #2
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    because microsfts gay....
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  5. 11-30-2003, 04:30 PM Software & Hardware   -   #3
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    Because some are wildcards. *???a.*

    http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/classes/unix2/slide08.html
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  7. 11-30-2003, 04:31 PM Software & Hardware   -   #4
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    To my understanding, (which is by no means definitive) it's because some characters are used by the system to indicate things like drive letters and/or filepaths. EG: C:\Windows\Temp
    Virtualbody has already done wildcards better than I can explain it.
    And some are part of other coding languages, like <html>

    It&#39;s just to stop filenames causing conflicts with system commands.
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