🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Article #6529

Re: Wildcards ("*.o" wild, "*" console, "**" wild)

#6529
From: Pekka Pessi
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 1990 19:12
22 lines
1814 bytes
>>>>> On 8 Nov 90 22:33:12 GMT, deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) said:
Deven> No, Tom...  People can still bitch about it -- for * to be equivalent
Deven> to #?, it has to be in conjunction with something, not alone.  That
Deven> is, you can do "delete *.o" but not "delete *"...  However, you *can*
Deven> use "delete **" instead, so I guess it's not *too* bad...  (People
Deven> just have to be made aware doubling it works for a match-everything
Deven> wildcard...  yes, it's still 2 keystrokes, like #?, but both the same
Deven> key, and one many people are used to...)

	The first thing I did with my Amiga was to customize the "S"
	keymap. In so called Swedish/Finnish keymap you should press
	shift-alt-3 to get #, which is quite ridiculous. I mapped
	string "#?"  to alt-` (and # to shift-#). So where is your 2
	keystrokes? If machine have customizeable keymaps, why not to
	use them?  If some program insists to use usa1, toss it to
	trashcan.

						Pekka Pessi



					
Technical Details
Message-ID: <PPESSI.90Nov10201254@bulldozer.hut.fi>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!santra!ppessi
References: <53407.657565922@atronx.UUCP> <1990Nov3.073201.8227@agate.berkeley.edu> <6977@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Nov4.054222.24999@agate.berkeley.edu> <6984@sugar.hackercorp.com> <Nov.4.12.36.09.1990.26991@pilot.njin.net> <DEVEN.90Nov8173358@netserv2.rpi.edu>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!santra!ppessi
From: ppessi@niksula.hut.fi (Pekka Pessi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcards ("*.o" wild, "*" console, "**" wild)
Message-ID: <PPESSI.90Nov10201254@bulldozer.hut.fi>
Date: 10 Nov 90 19:12:54 GMT
References: <53407.657565922@atronx.UUCP>
 <1990Nov3.073201.8227@agate.berkeley.edu> <6977@sugar.hackercorp.com>
 <1990Nov4.054222.24999@agate.berkeley.edu> <6984@sugar.hackercorp.com>
 <Nov.4.12.36.09.1990.26991@pilot.njin.net>
 <DEVEN.90Nov8173358@netserv2.rpi.edu>
Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Lines: 22
In-Reply-To: deven@rpi.edu's message of 8 Nov 90 22:33:12 GMT