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Old 06-05-2008
meaning of .& in shell

Hi ,

can anyone explain me the meaning of following line

". &13FNAME/version_encours/cfg/dfm.cfg"


Regards
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Old 06-05-2008
Like this it has no meaning. Maybe the line above it is something like
Code:
echo | \

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