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In article <DEVEN.90Mar22125624@netserv2.rpi.edu> deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes:
> Peter> 	cx#(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9)

> Can't.  But, it IS nicer to be able to use "[0-9]" instead of
> "(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9)"...

Yeh, but you can't do cx#(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9).(obj|bak|lnk|lbk)

The point is that regular expressions are more powerful than wildcards. And
the Amiga "wildcards" are regular expressions.

> No reason why some Unix shell shouldn't allow full regexps for
> globbing.  They just don't, usually.  :-)  [tradition, y'know.]

Well, that's the point ain't it?

> I would like to be able to do "Join *.c wx#(y|z) ab#c.* to '*'" and
> have it work as expected.  That is, first *.c is Unix semantics,
> second wx#(x|y) is AmigaDOS semantics, third ab#c.* is a combination,
> and the fourth (fifth) '*' is an escaped wildcard, so it would open
> the console as * normally does for BCPL...

Ack. Give me consistency.

> Why write bcopy() when there is exec.library CopyMem()?  Because bcopy
> will handle arbitrary overlapping memory blocks, which CopyMem() does
> not.

How about putting this in the C library level, and implement sbrk() for
the lower level. malloc isn't a system call... Also, how about using ANSI
C functions (memcpy, memmov, memcmp, etc) instead of the non-standard BSD
ones?
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