CompuServe Messages

Well, actually it's not non-alphanumeric, it's character which also serve some purpose in AmigaDos. And yes, though hardly anyone uses it, the apostrophe is an official AmigaDos character. So are parenthesis, not symbols ~,vertical bars, etc. I don't even remember what the apostrophe does, but Steve remembered it. It's the routine that decides if you're entering in a file or a pattern from the file field. You can enter patterns (just type in #?.asc, for example. But this means that you can't name your files weare#1, tobe|nottobe, etc…