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In article <bruce.4296@zuhause.MN.ORG> bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) writes:
>>In article <18267083.ARN03721@swindj.UUCP> didierj@swindj.UUCP (Alain Didierjean) writes:
>[complaint that current directory has no abbreviation like . in Unix deleted]
>>Did yoy ever try :
>>
>>        copy /usr/local/bin/somefile ""
>>
>Where is it documented?  I scanned the "Using The System Software" manual provided with
>the 3000, and was unable to find it mentioned anywhere.  I still would know unless it
>had been posted here.

Page 8-26, in the COPY command description.

>bruce@zuhause.mn.org	   


Some info that wasn't in the current manual is that we support
a not operator ( a ~) and character classes (delimited by [ and ] ) in
wildcard expansion.  So you can say things like

list [a-c]#?

or 

list ~([a-c]#?)

(not effects the next token, so its best to use parens )

			andy

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