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Re: annoying bug in Windows XP
From: Thierry Zoller <Thierry () sniff-em com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:36:52 +0200
Dear Jerome, AFAIK A DOS 8.3 extension has 3 characters, del and various other dos tools ignore everything that has more then 3 chars, so for del .jav is the same as .java Thierry http://thierry.sniff-em.com JA> Hi, JA> maybe something similar to this: JA> http://seclists.org/lists/vuln-dev/2005/Feb/0007.html JA> Frank Dietrich wrote:
Hi to all readers, this day I found a annoying misbehavior in Windows XP professional with SP2. I had a directory with some Java sources (*.java) and some backup files (*.jav). Because I din't longer need the backup files I would delete them with 'del *.jav'. But this command also delete all the source files. #§%*. The last backup was 4 hours ago. :-/ So I tried what happen and the result is the command above checks only the first three chars from the extension (DOS is alive). Here is how you can reproduce it: mkdir testbug cd testbug rem.>file1.jav rem.>file2.java rem.>file3.javas del *.jav All three files are deleted. Is this a known bug or a unknown feature? Frank
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