[moneydance] Moneydance 2008 final, and related news

[Gordon Alley]

The use of a hyphen as the first character of a filename should always be
avoided, because if the filename appears as a command line argument, most
command line parsers will interpret the "-" as the beginning of an option
argument.
-Gordon

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Dave Saville <dave at deezee.org> wrote:

> Nasty problem here - lost all my data :-(
>
> It would seem that the new MD is keeping some sort of backup, even
> though I have backups turned off. I have several md files and my
> security method is to tar them up and run them through pgp thus:
>
> tar -cf - *.md|pgp  -cf >data.pgp
>
> Now given an arbitrary md file daves.md this new process generates a
> -daves.md file as soon as MD opens the file - and leaves it there when
> it closes. So tar barfs:
>
> tar: Unknown option d.  Use 'tar --help' for a complete list of
> options. So nothing gets passed to pgp. The script then deletes the md
> files :-(
>
> OK I have backup and the quick fix is to add -- before the *.md to tar
> but it might confuse some others so I thought I would post.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Dave Saville
>
> --
Gordon B. Alley
http://www.gordonalley.com