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In article <dmurdoch.271.721580165@mast.queensu.ca> dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
>In article <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
>>I mean, DOS is a single tasking, single user, program loader.
>>It doesn't have any wildcard expansions build in.  Every program must
>>expand the wildcards for it self. 
>
>No, I think you must be thinking of Unix.  DOS does have wildcard expansion
>in the FindFirst/FindNext services.  In Unix it's up to the shell to do it.
>
>If you want, you could write a DOS shell that did the expansion itself, but 
>the loss of the ability to have positional parameters is a pretty big cost 
>to pay.
>
>This is one place where DOS got it right, and Unix got it wrong.  Of course, 
>DOS only got it half-right:  the wildcards aren't nearly as flexible as they 
>should be.

Those of us with long memories will remember that this is how Multics
used to do it. And it had, of course, wildcarding beyond the dreams of
Unix or MSDOS users.

Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.