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Subject: Re: font-locking mysteries
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Christian Gudrian <Christian.Gudrian@gmx.de> writes:

> Asterisks are no good in file names that are meant to be stored on
> file systems by Microsoft...  Which makes me wonder whether that would
> work on *nix systems.

Why not?

MLO@mlinux 1 $ cd tmp/
MLO@mlinux 2 $ cat > hell\*.txt
Hello,world
MLO@mlinux 3 $ ls -l
total 20
-rw-r--r--  1 loreti g1cdf 1517 Jun 28 12:15 ham
-rw-r--r--  1 loreti g1cdf   12 Jun 28  2004 hell*.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 loreti g1cdf 3265 Jun 28 10:38 new.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 loreti g1cdf 4375 Jun 28 10:39 oldies6.m3u
MLO@mlinux 4 $

-- 
Maurizio Loreti                         http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Padova, Italy              ROT13: ybergv@cq.vasa.vg