Re: Wildcard types

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From: Jim Pritchett
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 1990 03:38

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In article <1990Nov1.181023.21485@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:

> Under AmigaDOS you have to use the actual name or more of some kind
> of convoluted name (slashes '/' and subdirectory names).

Actually, you can usually use double quotes to indicate the current
directory.

e.g.  copy df0:testfile ""

so, it is not quite as bad as:

copy df0:testfile /whatevermycurrentdirectorynameis


I hope this helps.  (I didn't know about it for quite a while...)




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