<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You can use the hex loader on Pd-0.39.2-extended or Pd >=0.40:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>[v*] would be v0x2a.dll, where 0x2a is the hex ascii code for *. This should work for compiled objects and Pd patches.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>.hc</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 13, 2006, at 10:18 AM, Martin Dupras wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I can't believe I have not noticed before now, but windows cannot have the character '*' in a filename.That does explain among other things why I could not unzip some example files (e.g. Patrick Sanan's MiniMoog.) <BR> <BR>I also noticed that the pix_kaleidoscope example patch uses a v* object, which doesn't exist on windows. <BR> <BR>Is there are workaround? <BR> <BR>- martin <BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:PD-list@iem.at">PD-list@iem.at</A> mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <A href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P><DIV>------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Terrorism is not an enemy.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>It cannot be defeated.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>It's a tactic.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>It's about as sensible to say we declare war on night attacks and expect we're going to win that war.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>We're not going to win the war on terrorism. </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>- retired U.S. Army general, William Odom</FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>