A convention for -file

Sun Nov 2 10:24:43 AEST 1986

From: seismo!unido!exunido!hmm (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 86 03:10:54 +0100

One problem with all the methods for escaping -file is that wildcard expansion
by the shell will still get the real names.  So if I happen to have a file
"-rf" in my home directory and do a "rm *f", I'm out of luck :-)
I have no solution for this, though...

	Hans-Martin Mosner
	University of Dortmund (W. Germany)

Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 17