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Number   :  4960
Date     :  2003-07-06
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: file exclusion problem
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Anykey wrote:
>
> Thought I would forward this message from the alt.comp.freeware
> newsgroup; maybe somebody here can diagnose the problem.
> I would also be interested in learning what might be going wrong.



Thanks for alerting me.

I have responded to the message in the newsgroup (alt.comp.freeware).
The problem that the original poster had was probably due to his
misunderstanding that the following two items are equivalent:

/xC:\Windows\*
/xC:\Windows\*\*

These are not the same. The first one excludes only the files
in the first-level of C:\Windows\ such as C:\windows\system.ini
but not any file in subdirectories therein (e.g.,
c:\windows\system32\abc.xyz).

On the other hand, the following two are completely interchangeable:

/xC:\Windows\
/xC:\Windows\*\*

Kan Yabumoto



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