Re: IFS gotcha - potential disaster -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: IFS gotcha - potential disaster
From: Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:55:41 -0600
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At 11:50 12/15/2003, Scott Klement wrote:

> Also, I opened that file, in Windows, with TextPad. What I got was the
> other 5 files in the root. This is when I got worried.

That's bizarre.  Windows Explorer does not, as far as I know, use
wildcards.  This implies that NetServer interprets wildcards when Windows
does not intend it to.

I think that's just Textpad. If you feed Textpad a "generic" file name, it attempts to open all files that match it, and as they say at help-desk, it's working as designed.


Pete Hall
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