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Article #6390Re: Wildcard types
From: Chuck McManis
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 21:10
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 21:10
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In article <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:
The AMIGADOS equivalent of "current directory" is "" (ie the null string)
so the command
1> Copy df0:foo ""
will copy the file foo to the current directory. Note this only works
reliably on 1.3 and later systems.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcard types Message-ID: <2232@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 6 Nov 90 21:10:01 GMT References: <87.272D0968@myamiga.UUCP> <1990Nov01.061846.27994@hoss.unl.edu> <1990Nov1.181023.21485@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 20