Re: ASCII Pfile Filename Problem

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 06/10/00


On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Michael Gallagher wrote:

>If noticed a few players are having problems saving. And these same players
>have 2 files in the pfiles. for example "Subliminal" there would be 2 files
>
>subliminal
>subliminal?
>
>The ? is just something i see in Linux, but with cuteftp i get another wierd
>ascii symbol. Anyway, i can't delete these files and i'm wonder how they
>were created, anyone have an insight?

ls -b

That'll list the octal representation of the character, if you're curious
as to how it happened.

If you just want to get rid of it, I generally do 'subliminal?<TAB>' and
Bash will generally auto-complete it.

--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org


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