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echo: public_domain
to: Paul Edwards
from: rowan crowe
date: 1995-04-06 11:25:18
subject: msq304.zip

Answering msg from Paul Edwards to Bill Grimsley,
on Monday April 03 1995 at 20:41

 PE>> Ok fair enough.  Do you want to send the archives back down here
 PE>> so that I can guarantee we only have the one version of them
 PE>> available?

 PE> Actually, forget about that.  My magic name for MSGED is MSQ3*.*,
 PE> and I don't know if I can safely change that to MSQ3??.* and not
 PE> get a match for MSQ304D.ZIP, but still get a match for MSQ304.ZIP.
 PE> One would hope so, but I can't be sure.

    C'mon Paul, think about it. The ?'s replace a single character. How can
a spec of "MSQ3??.*" (base filename of 6 characters) possibly
match "MSQ304D.ZIP" (base filename of 7 characters).

    You could always do the obvious thing, and change the magicname spec to
the actual filename.

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