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Article #3042Re: Wildcards
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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 1990 00:24
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 1990 00:24
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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: [...] >>wild cards. I also use in my own programs a convention that "..." in a >>path means "this directory and any subdirectories leading off it". This >>would be handy to have as a standard Amiga convention, so that I could do >> COPY vol:dir/dir.../*foo?ar.* destination >>instead of .... how Would you do this under DOS? > >Well, here is the weakness of AmigaDos wildcards. The ... notation is missing. I don't think it would be that useful and some programs could abuse it. What I think is needed is the ability to copy to the current directory. For example, "copy file" to copy a file to the current directory. Or is there already some way of doing this? [...] >>Duncan Thomson [...] > Stellan /\ from / \_________________________________ / /\ Chris Dailey, Amiga Enthusiast / \ \ \___dailey@cpsin1.cps.msu.edu___/ \ / \/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!cps3xx!usenet From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcards Message-ID: <7002@cps3xx.UUCP> Date: 23 Mar 90 00:24:09 GMT References: <102618@linus.UUCP> <3138@draken.nada.kth.se> Reply-To: dailey@cpsin2.UUCP (Chris Dailey) Organization: Engineering, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing Lines: 27