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Article #2947Re: Wildcards
From: Mike (Real Amiga have keyboard g...
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 19:00
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 19:00
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In article <3138@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-skl@nada.kth.se (Stellan Klebom) writes: In article <102618@linus.UUCP> duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson) writes: >I never understood where the AmigaDos wildcard conventions came from. Why >deviate from a widely used convention in favor of a new one which noone >is familiar with? Neither can I, but I find Amiga DOS wilcards quite good. I just wish they had made it like Apollo's. #, ?, () & | come from Tripos, along with the CLI and the rest of the DOS. I was familiar with it over 10 years ago, and it's nearly 15 years old. > COPY vol:dir/dir.../*foo?ar.* destination >instead of .... how Would you do this under DOS? Yup, the "..." notation is missing from DOS. And from most things. That and the "*" notation is an addition to VMS since I last used it - "*" used to be restricted oddly, so that "xy*zy" wouldn't work. <mike -- Take a magic carpet to the olden days Mike Meyer To a mythical land where everybody lays mwm@relay.pa.dec.com Around in the clouds in a happy daze decwrl!mwm In Kizmiaz ... Kizmiaz
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amiga have keyboard garages) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcards Message-ID: <MWM.90Mar15110039@raven.pa.dec.com> Date: 15 Mar 90 19:00:39 GMT References: <102618@linus.UUCP> <3138@draken.nada.kth.se> Sender: news@decwrl.dec.com Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 28 In-reply-to: d88-skl@nada.kth.se's message of 15 Mar 90 14:04:14 GMT