file names containing '$'

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From: Thomas M. Breuel
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 1990 00:15

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I have difficultly editing files containing (actually, starting with)
a '$' sign. Emacs tries to such file names as environment variables,
and I can't seem to find a mechanism for quoting the '$' (preceding
it with a '\' doesn't help).

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From: tmb@AI.MIT.EDU (Thomas M. Breuel)
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Subject: file names containing '$'
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Date: 26 Jul 90 00:15:36 GMT
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Posted: Thu Jul 26 01:15:36 1990