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Article #6354Re: Wildcard types
From: Alain Didierjean
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 1990 09:52
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 1990 09:52
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In article <1990Nov1.181023.21485@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).
Did yoy ever try :
copy /usr/local/bin/somefile ""
True, that's one character more than under Unix...
It's documented too...
-> Jeff
Alain DIDIERJEAN
The Software Winery ...cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmfra!swindj!didierj
You know what ? I'm happy
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmfra!swindj!didierj From: didierj@swindj.UUCP (Alain Didierjean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcard types Message-ID: <18267083.ARN03721@swindj.UUCP> Date: 3 Nov 90 09:52:35 GMT References: <87.272D0968@myamiga.UUCP> <1990Nov01.061846.27994@hoss.unl.edu> <1990Nov1.181023.21485@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: didierj@cbmfra Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.tech Organization: The Software Winery Lines: 28