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Article #6291Re: Wildcard types
From: Larry Phillips
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 1990 20:31
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 1990 20:31
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In <1990Nov1.181023.21485@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
>
> I too despise CBM's choice of wild card characters, although '#' is
>more logical than '*'. I've gotten used to it by now, but my largest comp-
>laint is that there is no current directory character ala UNIX. Under UNIX
>if you want to copy a file elsewhere to the current directory you can easily
>state '.' as in:
>
> copy /usr/local/bin/somefile .
>
> Under AmigaDOS you have to use the actual name or more of some kind
>of convoluted name (slashes '/' and subdirectory names).
Under Amigados, you can use:
copy /usr/local/bin/somefile ""
> Lets be careful not to put IBM PC's above Amigas (in this respect).
Let's be careful to know what we are talking about before falsely accusing the
Amiga of shortcomings.
-larry
--
It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs.
-D.Wolfskill
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcard types Message-ID: <2185@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 1 Nov 90 20:31:49 GMT Lines: 32 Return-Path: <lpami!lphillips> To: van-bc!rnews